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Iraq
Three Islamic State members killed as Iraqi troops repel attack, southeast of Mosul
2018-02-25
djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
(IraqiNews.com) Three 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 were killed in an attack foiled by the Federal Police in southeast of Mosul, according to Nineveh Police.

"Federal troops repulsed an attack by IS in Makhmur region, southeast of Mosul, killing three of the attackers," Lt. Gen. Salam al-Okeidi, spokesperson for the police command, told BasNews on Saturday.

No further details about the attack or losses of the federal troops were provided.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Senate, the partisans of Honorius went for their knives and the partisans of Stilicho went for the doors...
Cap. Salah Samir, an officer from Nineveh police, said troops confiscated a tunnel for IS forces of Evil in Hammam al-Alil camp, south of Mosul.

"Police ran into a tunnel for IS in Hammam al-Alil camp, as a part of it collapsed by rain water," Samir said.
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