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Iraq
Iraqi gov't announces progress in Anbar campaign
2015-07-02
[RUDAW.NET] In a continuation of the Anbar military campaign, some 32 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....
holy warriors have been killed, Iraqi officials claimed Wednesday.

According to a statement released by the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Iraqi security forces in corporation with the Shiite militia movement known as the Hashd al-Shaabi, or Popular Mobilization Units, hunted down 10 holy warriors near Habbaniya in central Iraq.

The statement added that in a separate operation US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes blasted several ISIS bases west of Samara, killing 21 ISIS holy warriors and destroying two ISIS vehicles.

In January 2014 ISIS holy warriors swept into Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar province, which Iraqi security forces abandoned. Since then Iraqi security forces backed by US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes have been fighting the terror group to retake ISIS footholds in Anbar province.
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