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Iraq
Iraqi PM Abadi declares victory over ISIL in Tal Afar
2017-09-01
[Al Jazeera] Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has declared victory over the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) gang in the northern city of Tal Afar and the entire province of Nineveh.

US-backed Iraqi forces launched an offensive against ISIS fighters, who had been holding Tal Afar for three years, on August 20.

"Tal Afar has been liberated," Abadi said in a statement on Thursday, congratulating the Iraqi security forces.

"We say to the Islamic State fighters: wherever you are, we are coming for you and you have no choice but to surrender or die."

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