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| Iraq |
| Peshmerga forces retake new areas south of Iraq's Kirkuk |
| 2015-06-12 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Iraqi Kurdish forces, known as the Peshmerga, regained new areas south of Kirkuk city on Thursday, Al Hadath News Channel's correspondent reported. The Peshmerga forces were able to recapture the areas in the northern oil-rich city after U.S. and allied forces targeted 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) Lions of Islam in Iraq with 16 air strikes since Tuesday, the U.S. military said, including five near Baiji, site of the country's biggest oil refinery. The strikes near Baiji hit four ISIS tactical units, destroyed three vehicles, a building and an improvised bomb (IED), the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement on Wednesday. Other air strikes in Iraq hit near Tal Afar, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Baghdadi, Sinjar and Makhmur, it said. In Syria, three air strikes targeted the turban group at its stronghold of Raqqa and forces launched one air strike each near al-Hasaka and Dayr Az Zawr, where an Islamic State crude oil collection point was hit, the task force said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 he strikes near Baiji hit four ISIS tactical units, destroyed three vehicles, a building and an improvised bomb (IED), a BBQ trailer, 3 goats, 9 gallons of black paint, a car jack, and 9 possibly 11 tomato plants. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-06-12 06:20 |