Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have enjuggedBook 'im, Mahmoud!
more than fifty 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....
members in southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
during liberation offensives there.
In a statement, the media service of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces), said, "the eleventh brigade combed Hawija and areas in its vicinity and arrested 56 terrorists. Their families were deported to refugee camps."
"1,228 square kilometers were combed, while 136 villages and three valleys were inspected. 56 Islamic State members were arrested, while their families were displaced, in accordance with a strategic plan drawn by al-Hashd al-Shaabi troops and intelligence," the statement said. "Tens of explosives planted by the turbans were removed."