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Iraq
Two Islamic State members killed in U.S.-Coalition airstrike, west of Kirkuk
2018-09-26
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Two 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 Arclight airstrike carried out by the U.S.-led Coalition, west of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a security source said on Tuesday.

Speaking to Baghdad Today website, the source said, "the strike targeted a hideout, where gunnies were hiding on the banks of Tigris river near Sobeih village, west of Kirkuk."

Two gunnies were killed, according to the source.
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