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Iraq
Army troops make fresh advances across Iraq
2014-07-05
[Iran Press TV] The latest reports indicate significant gains for the Iraqi army soldiers and heavy losses for the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
turbans from the so-called 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...
(ISIL) on several battle fronts.

Media reports say the government forces backed by thousands of volunteers killed 88 turbans in festivities in the northern Salahuddin Province.

Dozens of vehicles belonging to the ISIL have also been destroyed in the troubled region.

The army has also launched successful attacks on the turbans in Salahuddin's neighboring province of Diyala and in Kirkuk Governorate.

The attack in Diyala targeted the ISIL turbans in the Masuriyat al-Jabal area, northeast of the lovely provincial capital Baquba.

The army campaign in Kirkuk involved Arclight airstrikes on the ISIL turbans in Hawija, a city controlled by the turbans near the lovely provincial capital Kirkuk. No details including the potential number of casualties have come out yet.

This comes as Iraqi army is pushing ahead with its offensive to flush Takfiri turbans of the ISIL out of Tikrit. Soldiers, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, have already taken control of Tikrit University.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
scores of faceless myrmidons have been killed in the army Arclight airstrikes on djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and Babylon.

Iraq's ambassador to the US says Baghdad will turn to Iran, Russia, and Syria for military support if Washington does not supply what it needs to halt the Takfiri terrorists. Lukman Faily said Iraq has to take whatever aid is available because of the threat from the ISIL.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Actually, Mosul sits ON TOP OF the ancient Assyrian Capital of Nineveh.

Babylon is on the outskirts of Hillah, to the South of Baghdad.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2014-07-05 01:39  

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