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Iraq
Platoon of ISIS fighters literally blown to pieces after Iraqi forces ambush their hideout in Kirkuk
2018-03-30
[ALMASDARNEWS] Amid an ongoing anti-insurgency operation by Iraqi forces across the country’s central areas, a platoon-sized grouping of 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Death Eaters was recently caught in an ambush and entirely wiped out.

According to reports from well-informed Iraqi pro-government sources, the engagement took place in the Hawija district of Kirkuk province and saw Iraqi Federal Police units came into contact with an ISIS grouping hiding out inside a large trench emplacement.

As photo evidence (below) shows, the terrorist fighters were completely annihilated (literally being blown into pieces) in the battle that ensured, the duration of which has not been stated.

Iraqi Federal Police units are generally as well-armed as the nation’s army minus some heavy equipment. Many federal officers are veteran troops after years of battling ISIS and other Death Eater groups that existed prior to Islamic State takeover of 2014.
Posted by:Fred

#2  "I've got an ear over here!"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-03-30 12:12  

#1  So were the bodies strip searched for intelligence or simply looted?
Posted by: Skidmark   2018-03-30 11:57  

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