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Iraq
Kurdish Forces Attack ISIL On 3 Fronts In Iraq
2014-10-01
[IranPressTV] Kurdish Peshmerga forces have carried out military operations against ISIL 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...
holy warriors on three fronts in northern Iraq, military sources say.

Senior Kurdish commanders, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
, said Peshmerga fighters launched pre-dawn attacks against ISIL positions in the border town of Rabia situated northwest of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
early on Tuesday.

The Kurdish military officials said their forces entered Rabia and engaged in heavy festivities with ISIL holy warriors there after liberating the villages of as-Saudiyah and Mahmudiyah.

According to the military sources, Kurdish troops also launched a similar offensive in the city of Zumar in northern Iraq.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, Kurdish forces managed to liberate the villages around the town of Daquq, south of the key oil city of Kirkuk. The area had been under the control of ISIL Takfiris since June 10.

"They have liberated the villages of Saad and Khaled. The Peshmerga have taken full control of the area, following fierce fighting," Kurdish General Westa Rasul said.

Several Western states are now supplying the Kurdish fighters with military equipment and weapons. Since early August, the US military has been carrying out Arclight airstrikes on ISIL positions in Iraq.

In recent weeks, ISIL Takfiri holy warriors have suffered severe losses as the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces go ahead with their offensive against the Death Eaters in several parts of the Arab country.

Having taken control of parts of Syria, the ISIL terrorist group sent its holy warriors into neighboring Iraq in early June and quickly seized large swathes of the territory there.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  I'm still betting on Kurds getting screwed at the end.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-10-01 12:29  

#1  Good for the Kurds. As I recall, Oldspook said the other day that the Kurds need artillery, supply/logistics, and I think he said air cover. Maybe some A-10 Warthogs and AC-130s might level the playing field. AC130 in action.
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-10-01 12:26  

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