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Iraq
Blast in northern Iraq injures five Italian soldiers
2019-11-11
[THEBAGHDADPOST] An bomb exploded in northern Iraq on Sunday as a vehicle carrying Italian special forces drove nearby, injuring five soldiers, three of them seriously, the Italian military said on Sunday.

The attack happened near the city of Kirkuk. The maimed men were evacuated by U.S. helicopters to a military hospital in Baghdad, where one had to have a leg amputated, a military official told state broadcaster RAI.

"Our men were training Iraqi security forces engaged in fighting ISIS
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...
," Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said, referring to the 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....
holy warrior group.

"I am following the situation with sorrow and apprehension," he wrote on Twitter.

The blast happened three days before the 16th anniversary of a suicide kaboom in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriya, which killed 18 Italian servicemen, an Italian civilian and nine Iraqi civilians.
Rudaw adds:
According to a statement from Italian Foreign Minister Luigi di Maio, the soldiers had been training Iraqi security forces "engaged in the fight against ISIS." Italian forces regularly participate in international efforts to train the Iraqi security forces tasked with preventing a resurgence of the murderous Moslem group in Iraq.
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