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| US-led coalition: Service member killed in explosion in Iraq |
| 2017-10-03 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] The U.S.-led coalition said on Oct. 2 that a service member was killed and another was maimed the previous day in Iraq when an kaboom from a bobby-trapped device struck their vehicle. According to the statement from the coalition, further details would be released once next of kin are notified. So far, seven American servicemen have been killed in Iraq in the fight against 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), including two in the battle to retake the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Additionally, a French paratrooper was killed in the fight against ISIS last month, though officials did not specify if the individual died in Iraq or Syria. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in August that more than 1,200 Iraqi forces were killed in the battle for Mosul and more than 6,000 were maimed. In July, Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, declared victory against IS in Mosul. The following month, the Iraqi military retook the IS-held town of Tal Afar. Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S.-led coalition, are now fighting to retake the ISIS-held town of Hawija, 240 kilometers north of Baghdad. Hawija is one of the last pockets of ISIS-held territory in Iraq. Iraqi forces are also fighting the forces of Evil in the western province of Anbar where IS launched a counterattack against Iraqi forces holding the historic provincial capital of Ramadi last week. The city had been declared "fully liberated" from the group in Feb. 2016. The U.S. launched military operations against IS in August 2014. IS fighters began growing in power in Iraq in early 2014 in the country’s west and in the summer of 2014 swept across much of the country’s north, capturing a third of Iraq’s territory. |
| Posted by:Fred |