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| Bombing, Shelling Kill 12 near Baghdad as 5 Die in Kirkuk Blast |
| 2014-06-26 |
| [AnNahar] A suicide kaboom and shelling killed 12 people and maimed at least 23 south of Storied Baghdad Wednesday, officials said, as Iraq struggles to stem a major hard boy offensive. The bomber detonated explosives in a market in Mahmudiyah, while shellfire struck various areas of the town. A major Sunni jihadist offensive, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... , has overrun chunks of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad since June 9. Meanwhile, ...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell... a boom-mobile in a Kurdish-majority neighborhood of the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk killed five people on Wednesday evening, security and medical officials said. Twenty more people were maimed by the blast in the northern part of the tinderbox oil hub, which lies at the heart of territory Iraq's Kurds want to incorporate into their autonomous region over the objections of Storied Baghdad. Two of the dead were Kurdish security force members. While the federal government has not abandoned its opposition to Kurdish claims, Kurdish peshmerga forces are now responsible for its external security after the army abandoned its positions in the face of a Sunni Arab hard boy offensive led by the ISIL. The krazed killer onslaught, which began on June 9, has overrun swathes of five provinces north and west of Storied Baghdad, including mainly Sunni Arab towns in the west of Kirkuk province. After initially wilting when confronted with the hard boy advance, security forces have improved their performance. However, if you can't say something nice about a person some juicy gossip will go well... that has been limited to maintaining territory, rather than launching any major counter-offensive. |
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