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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iraqi warplanes hit strategic Daesh position in eastern Syria, kills 30 commanders
2019-01-01
[PRESSTV] Iraqi military aircraft have pounded a strategic position of the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
 terrorist group in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr after Syria's president, Bashir al-Assad, allowed Iraqi fighter jets to conduct Arclight airstrikes against the Lions of Islam in Syria without waiting to be granted formal authorization for the assaults.

The media bureau of Iraq’s Joint Operations Command, in a statement released on Monday, announced that Iraqi F-16 fighter jets had bombed and destroyed a two-story building on the outskirts of the village of Sousa, killing 30 ISIS commanders as they were holding a meeting.

The statement added that the aerial assault was carried out following close surveillance by the Iraqi Intelligence Service.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Are the militaries doing more of the heavy lifting in Iraq and Afghanistan? Far better-trained and organized? Stabilizing?

If so, that seems like a very good thing. Where we wanted to be sometime ago.
Posted by: JohnQC   2019-01-01 08:56  

#1  Abdul__ "Damn these sensitivity training sessions anyway"
Achmed__ "Naw, it's a good way to meet chicks,,,,wait. Do you hear something?"
Posted by: Gerthudion Trotsky1845   2019-01-01 08:53  

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