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Iraq
Advance by Iraqi forces near Syrian border, 11,000km2 liberated in 24 hours
2017-12-09
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Iraqi Armed Forces launched a large-scale offensive in western Iraq, today, targeting 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....
’s (IS) last pocket along the Syrian border.

Led by the army and Hashd al-Sha’abi, the Iraqi Armed Forces scored massive gains across the western countryside of Iraq, liberating several villages that were occupied by the Islamic State for years.

According to a military report, the Iraqi Army liberated at least 7,000 square kilometers of territory between the Saleheddine, Nineveh, and al-Anbar governorates.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
their counterparts from Hashd al-Sha’abi managed to liberate at least 4,300 square kilometers of occupied territory themselves.
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