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| Iraq |
| Kurds Recapture Ground from IS north of Mosul |
| 2015-02-10 |
| [AnNahar] Kurdish forces backed up by U.S.-led air strikes have recaptured territory from Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... jihadists near the strategic city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in northern Iraq, the American military said Monday. The advance is the latest push by Kurdish forces around Mosul, considered a crucial battleground for an eventual major counteroffensive against the IS group by Iraqi government troops and the Kurds. "Security forces from the Kurdish region seized three bridgeheads on the west bank of the Tigris River, north of Mosul in formerly held Daesh (IS) areas," the U.S. military command overseeing the air war said in a statement. It said the assault was backed up by four "precise and effective" air raids by the U.S.-led coalition between Friday and Sunday. Coalition military advisers also provided "intelligence assistance" to the Kurdish fighters, the command added. "Kurdish peshmerga forces now hold the gains they have made and are postured to retake additional territory from Daesh in the vicinity of Mosul." As of Sunday, the coalition had conducted 2,341 bombing raids in Iraq and Syria since August 8, with U.S. warplanes accounting for 1,890 of the strikes, according to the Pentagon. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Does anyone want to make a prediction of when the headlines read "Iraq Army (or Iran) Recaptures Ground From Kurds North of Mosul?" |
| Posted by: jvalentour 2015-02-10 19:08 |