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Iraq
Iraqi paramilitary fighters repel IS attack on military checkpoint in Salahuddin
2019-07-24
[Iraq News] An Iraqi paramilitary force has repelled an attempt by Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
faceless myrmidons to attack a military checkpoint in Salahuddin province, a security source said.

Speaking to the privately-owned Almaalomah news website on Tuesday, the source said that members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have destroyed a pickup truck driven by Islamic State faceless myrmidons near a military checkpoint in Baiji city in Salahuddin.

"The IS faceless myrmidons were seeking to storm the checkpoint," the source said, adding that the pickup truck was completely destroyed in the operation.

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