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Iraq
7 Islamic State militants killed as troops repulse attack near Syrian borders
2018-02-02
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The pro-government paramilitary troops have repulsed an 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....
attack on borders with Syria, killing seven turbans, the media service reported on Wednesday.

"The 29th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) repelled an attack by IS against Tal Sufuk on the Iraqi-Syrian borders," the service said. "The foiled attack left seven murderous Moslems killed and a vehicle destroyed."

The border region, according to the website, "usually encounters armed attacks and mortar shelling by the murderous Moslems from inside Syria."

Earlier this week, the Iraqi Media News Agency quoted Farhan Mohammed al-Duleimi, member of the Anbar provincial council as saying that intelligence information from Syria confirmed presence of IS members near al-BuKamal region in Syria to launch attacks against Qaim, located near Iraqi-Syrian borders, and that they prepared for suicide kabooms to target military units deployed on borders between Iraq and Syria.
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