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Iraq
PMF launches anti-ISIS operation in Anbar
2024-11-18
[Rudaw] Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Sunday announced the launch of a fresh operation against 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....
(ISIS) cells in the western Anbar province, amid a countrywide effort to rid the country of the jihadists.

"The operation comes as part of a strategy to track down terrorist sleeper cells and prevent them from gaining any foothold by closing all security gasp in front of them in these areas," the PMF said on Telegram.

According to the statement, the campaign will mostly be centered on Anbar’s district of al-Qaim, near the border with Syria.
Related:
Anbar province: 2024-10-19 One Asayish killed in Kurdish-Iraqi joint anti-ISIS operation in Kirkuk
Anbar province: 2024-10-18 ISIS militant captured in Sulaimani in joint operation with Iraqi units
Anbar province: 2024-10-16 Iraqi warplanes kill four suspected ISIS members in Kirkuk
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Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Were the Iraqis accompanied by their nine-year-old wives?
Posted by: Elmoling Glusons1695   2024-11-18 03:08  

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