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Iraq
Five Islamic State members killed in security ambush, southwest of Kirkuk
2018-05-21
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi pro-government troops have killed five 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 in an ambush, southwest of Kirkuk province, a security source from the troops said on Sunday.

Speaking to AlSumaria News, the source said, "information received from the intelligence showed that some Islamic State members will infiltrate into one of the villages, southwest of Kirkuk."

An ambush was set, according to the source, "by the 16th brigade of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) in al-Yorgon region in al-Rashad town, southwest of Kirkuk. A truck carrying the snuffies was targeted."

"Fire was opened against the truck, leaving five snuffies killed, while the rest managed to escape," the source who preferred anonymity, added.
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