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Iraq
Iraq forces hunt militants after Tikrit breakthrough
2015-04-02
[ARABNEWS] Iraqi forces battled the last gunnies in Tikrit Wednesday to seal a victory the government described as a milestone in efforts to rid the country of the 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....
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Iraqi fighters picked their way through the rubble-strewn streets of the city, wary of any last-ditch attack from diehard IS fighters and of the thousands of bombs they left behind.
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