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Iraq
Army says foiled IS attack in western Anbar, killed 7 militants
2017-02-21
[Iraq News] Iraqi army forces held off an attack by 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....
Death Eaters on Monday at western Anbar, an army commander said in statements.

Brig. Gen. Nawman al-Zawbai, commander of the army’s 7th division, said the forces, backed by tribal troops, foiled an attack by IS on Kabisa, a region that have been under government and tribal troops control since it was released from the Lion of Islam group in early 2016. He said the forces killed seven of the attackers and maimed four others.

Anbar’s western regions still host some Islamic State strongholds that sustain occasional bombardments by Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition fighter jets. There has not been an officially-declared military campaign to free those regions, but the province’s military command launched a brief assault early January that managed to recapture some western villages before stopping again. It is believed that the Iraqi government will not aim at western Anbar before its forces are done with retaking djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Islamic State’s biggest bastion in Iraq where security forces have been battling the group since mid October.
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