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Iraq
6 Islamic State positions bombarded between Diyala, Salahuddin
2017-12-11
The war is over. Long live the war.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops bombarded six 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....
positions in a border area between Diyala and Salahuddin, a provincial official said.

"Iraqi security forces in cooperation with al-Hashd al-Shaabi [Popular Mobilization Forces] fighters fired mortar shells at six positions of Islamic State at Albu Canaan village in the border are between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces," Abdul-Khaleq al-Azzawi, a member of Diyala province council, told Alghad Press on Sunday.

"There are reports of human casualties among Islamic State bully boys," Azzawi said, adding that the shelling occurred after receiving accurate information on the location of these sites.

On Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared final victory over Islamic State three years after the bully boy group captured about a third of Iraq’s territory.
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