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| Iraq |
| Peshmerga killed in Kirkuk bomb attack |
| 2015-08-21 |
| [Rudaw] A Peshmerga soldier was killed by a roadside kaboom targeting his convoy in Kirkuk's Bashir village on Thursday, a Kurdish police official announced. "A roadside kaboom targeted Peshmerga forces today in Bashir, south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... " Sarhad Qadir, the provincial director of police in Kirkuk, told Rudaw. He added that one Peshmerga soldier was killed. No group has immediately grabbed credit for the attack, but the Kurdistan region's Peshmerga forces have been locked in a fierce war with the 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group (ISIS) for more than a year. Several people, including a child, were maimed in a kaboom last week in Kirkuk's Yarmuk area. ISIS attacked the Kurdistan region a year ago, igniting a war in which some 1,200 Peshmerga soldiers have been killed and about 5,000 maimed, according to official sources. |
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