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Iraq
Over 80 Islamic State members killed between February, March: Statement
2018-04-03
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Over eighty 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....
members were killed during operations carried out between February and March, southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the pro-government paramilitary troops announced on Monday.

A statement by the intelligence of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said "18 operations were carried out in Kirkuk and towns of Hawija, al-Riyad and al-Rashad between February 24 to March 27, during which 82 IS members were killed, while two others were maimed. Several types of weapons were seized as well as rest houses and tunnels."

The operations, according to the statement, were carried out by PMFs, in collaboration with Federal Police, military and air force. They took place in 20 villages.
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