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| Iraq | |
| Iraqi AF bombing Tikrit | |
| 2014-06-15 | |
| Iraq's Air Force has started bombing some areas of the country's city of Tikrit which is under the control of militants of the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Turkish Haber7 TV channel reported on June 14. The airstrikes resulted in some 40 people being dead and 30 more injured, according to the TV channel. The Iraqi authorities state that the killed people are terrorists, however, the locals say that the dead are the civilians, Haber7 TV channel said. The Iraqi city of Samarra, located 132 km from Baghdad, fell entirely under the control of the ISIL militants ON June 13.
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| Posted by:Steve White |