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| Kurdish general in Iraqi Army killed by ISIS in Anbar | |
| 2015-08-28 | |
| [Rudaw] Brigadier General Safin Abdulmajid, the Kurdish commander of 10th Division of Iraqi Army, was killed Thursday in Anbar province in a vehicle-borne suicide kaboom by 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Al-Iraqia TV reported Thursday that the jihadist attack on occurred in Jarayshi district, 18km north of the ISIS-held city of Ramadi. The AFP news agency reported that the bomber also killed Staff Major General Abdulrahman Abu Raghif, deputy head of the Anbar Operations Command. The AFP report said Baghdad's Joint Operations Command confirmed the deaths of the two officers and an unspecified number of other "heroic deaders."
It said all six of the jihadists were killed. The death or injury of senior officers during battles against IS is a persistent problem for Iraq. Two heads of the Anbar Operations Command have been maimed this year, while the commanders of a division and a brigade were killed in Anbar in April. The province's governor was maimed in 2014. Senior army and police commanders have also been killed in other provinces since IS launched its devastating offensive in June 2014, sweeping security forces aside. Baghdad's forces have managed to regain significant territory in two provinces north of the capital, but much of western Iraq, including Anbar, remains outside government control. | |
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