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2021-11-29 Iraq
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Five Iraqi Kurdish Fighters Killed in Attack Blamed on IS
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Five Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters were killed and four maimed in a roadside kabooming blamed on jihadists of the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, regional authorities said on Sunday.
The Saturday evening bombing south of the city of Sulaimaniyah underlined the "serious threat" IS still poses to the Kurdistan region four years after the Iraqi government declared victory over the jihadists, the region's prime minister Masrour Barzani said.
The region's peshmerga ministry said the slain fighters who were hit had been on their way to reinforce comrades who had come under attack by IS fighters.
"We have warned time and again about the dangers posed by the Islamic State group terrorists," Barzani said.
The last major attack blamed on IS in Iraq was an assault on a checkpoint south of Kirkuk that killed 13 coppers in September.
The last major attack claimed by IS was a July bombing in the Baghdad Shiite distric 
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