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Iraq
ISIS retreats near Mosul, regrouping in Hawija for expected assault
2015-03-24
[RUDAW.NET] Peshmerga forces backed by fierce oalition Arclight airstrikes pushed back the 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) Monday following an overnight assault by the bully boyz in the Bashik Mountains southeast of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
ISIS also is reportedly reorganizing forces in Hawija, south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

"Late last night, Daesh bully boyz (ISIS) attacked Peshmerga bases in the Bashik Mountains but they were pushed back by our forces," Peshmerga commander Qadir Badeli told Rudaw.

"The collation Arclight airstrikes were intensely shelling ISIS fighters, forcing them to back away and leaving their weapons behind," he added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, all the pieces finally fell together in Fluffy's mind...
there were reports Monday that ISIS is reorganizing forces in the city of Hawija, amid unconfirmed reports of a possible Peshmerga offensive on the city.

Hawija is 55 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
and ISIS bully boyz have been fleeing there from Tikrit, where the Iraqi Army has been advancing against the bully boyz in a joint offensive with Iranian-backed Shiite militias for days.
Posted by:Fred

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