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Terror Networks
U.S.-led coalition target ISIS weaponry
2015-04-23
[AraNews] United States and allies conducted a new round of Arclight airstrikes against gunnies of 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....
in Syria and Iraq over the last two days.

The U.S. Central Command reported in an official statement on Tuesday that the international coalition's warplanes targeted the radical group with six Arclight airstrikes in Syria and 22 similar raids in Iraq.

The coalition's strikes in Syria were concentrated on the countryside of Kobane and the province of Hasakah.

The U.S.-led strikes hit IS-held tactical units and checkpoints, as well as armored vehicles and fighting positions, according to the statement.

The coalition warplanes new raids in Iraq focused on tactical units of the Islamic State in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, al-Huwayjah, Bayji, Sinjar, Tal Afar, Fallujah and Ramadi.

The U.S. Central Command said that these new strikes against the radical group were aimed at weakening their positions and military capacities in the targeted areas, adding that a weapons factory held by the group in Mosul was a main target during Tuesday's strikes.
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