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Iraq
Security forces, PMUs kill 12 Islamic State members in Salahuddin
2017-03-01
[Iraq News] Iraqi security forces and allied paramilitaries killed 12 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 two separate offensives in Salahuddin province on Tuesday.

Head of the Tigris Operations command, Mezher al-Ezzawi, said nine IS members were killed in a snap attack in Mutaibija, a militancy hotspot on the borders between Salahuddin and Diyala. He said the attack was carried out by joint army and police troops, backed by an Iraqi aerial cover.

Multiple combat equipment belonging to the holy warrior group were seized following the offensive, according to Ezzawi.

Meanwhile,
...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy...
al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units), said through its media that three IS jacket wallahs were killed before carrying out an attack against the forces in Doloiya, southeast of Samarra.

IS has escalated violent attacks against security members and civilians across Iraqi provinces over the months that followed the launch of a security campaign to retake its biggest stronghold in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
last October. Observers believe the attacks aim at making up for losses the group has been sustaining in Mosul.
Posted by:Fred