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| 20 Sunni fighters killed by US airstrike near Mosul |
| 2016-10-06 |
| [AA.TR] At least 20 Sunni fighters were killed Wednesday by a U.S.-led coalition ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in northern Iraq. Tribal commander Nazhan al-Sakhr al-Lahibi told Anadolu Agency the fighters were killed after they were mistakenly hit by coalition planes in the Kharaeb Jabr village, south of Mosul. There was no comment from the U.S.-led coalition on the claim. Al-Lahibi said ISIS hard boyz had launched an overnight attack on the village. "Tribal fighters, however, had managed to kill four bad boys," he said. In mid-2014, ISIS captured Mosul, along with vast swathes of territory in the country’s northern and western regions. Recent months have seen the Iraqi army -- backed by a 60-nation coalition led by the U.S. -- retake much territory, especially in the western Anbar province. Nevertheless, ISIS remains in control of several parts of the country, includingMosul. Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have recently captured a number of areas on the outskirts of Mosul, which Iraqi officials have vowed to recapture by year’s end. 10 ISIS Bad Guys have a Very Bad Day in Ninevah (IraqiNews.com) Nineveh – Nineveh Operations Command announced on Wednesday, that ten ISIS members were killed in an air strike carried out by the international coalition air force in Qayyarah vicinity, south of Mouth. The command said in a press statement, “Today, the international coalition aircraft bombarded a headquarters of ISIS in Kharaeb Jabr village in Qayyarah, killing ten ISIS members.” “The bombardment also resulted in the destruction of the headquarters completely,” the statement added. The Islamic State group captured the city of Mosul in 10 June 2014, before extending its terrorist activity to other areas in Iraq. |
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