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2023-08-17 Iraq

Iraqi warplanes target ISIS hideout in Kirkuk

[Rudaw] An alleged 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....
(ISIS) hideout in Kirkuk province was destroyed on Wednesday after it was targeted by the Iraqi air force, the country’s Security Media Cell reported.

Iraqi F-16 jets "destroyed a hideout of ISIS gangs in the Zghitun valley" in western Kirkuk in coordination with the Kirkuk Operations Command, according to the cell, who did not disclose information about casualties inflicted in the air raid.

ISIS seized control of swathes of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.

The ~~bandidos~~ gunnies are active in a security vacuum in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, stretching across the provinces of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Salahaddin, and Diyala.

Iraq’s air force regularly pursues and targets ISIS hideouts across the country, particularly in the disputed areas.

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