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Iraq
Iraqi troops kill 12 Islamic State militants, southwest of Kirkuk
2018-05-18
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi fighter jets have killed twelve 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, including a prominent leader, southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a security source from the province said on Thursday.

"Federal police troops, backed by army jets, started operations to target the Death Eaters havens, southwest of Kirkuk," the source told AlSumaria News. "The troops destroyed, in the evening, six rest houses of IS and killed four Lions of Islam in al-Rashad town."

The army jets, according to the source, who preferred anonymity, "targeted one of the havens near al-Zab region, west of Kirkuk, leaving eight holy warriors, including a prominent leader, killed."
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Keep up the good work!
Posted by: gorb   2018-05-18 00:52  

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