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Iraq
11 Islamic State militants killed while trying to storm villages in Kirkuk
2018-05-26
ISIS was so much quieter, back when it was being conquered by the Peshmerga...
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Eleven forces of Evil of the 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....
group were killed while trying to storm two villages in southwestern Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a security front man was quoted as saying.

"A joint force from Hawija police and the Tribal Mobilization Forces repelled an attack by Islamic State against Gharib and Hanaf villages in southwestern Kirkuk, managing to kill 11 attackers, including five jacket wallahs," Altaghier TV channel quoted Spokesman for the Iraqi Security Media Council Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying.

The festivities also left an Iraqi policeman and a member of the Tribal Mobilization Forces killed.
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