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Iraq
17 Islamic State members killed in a week within operations in Diyala
2018-01-08
[Iraq News] Security operations carried out by joint troops killed seventeen 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....
members, including a prominent leaders in seven days, according to the security committee of Diyala provincial council.

"Security forces, backed by al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) carried out several operations over the past seven days to follow IS cells in several regions across Diyala," Sadeq al-Husseini, head of the committee, told Alghad Press on Sunday.

"The operations left 17 IS members, including a prominent leader at the so-called Diyala State," Husseini added. "The group lost most of its bandidos gunnies and leaders in Diyala."

On Thursday, Husseini said Counter-Terrorism Service managed to kill the Islamic State’s so-called Diyala State’s head (Wali), known as Abu Ayed, in Hamreen mountains.

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