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Iraq
IS loses heavy weapons depots in joint Peshmerga-Coalition attacks
2015-08-13
[RUDAW.NET] Coalition warplanes and Peshmerga forces have destroyed heavy-weapons depots 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....
(ISIS) on the western Dijla front, inflicting a heavy blow on the group's ability to engage in heavy festivities, a Kurdish official said Wednesday.

"On Tuesday, at around 5:50, the US-led coalition warplanes and the Peshmerga destroyed ISIS military bases as well as weapons depots containing heavy weapons in the village of Ashqi close to the Kaske two-sided road on the western Dijla front," said Brig. Dilshad Maulood, media officer of the Zeravani Peshmerga command.

He told Rudaw that heavy weapons storage facilities were targeted, undercutting the group's fighting capacity. He claimed that was a "major blow" to the myrmidons.

The key western Dijla front is located west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, where Peshmerga and coalition warplanes have been targeting ISIS movements and positions. The attacks are part of plans to weaken the gunnies ahead of an anticipated massive assault to free the city, which ISIS seized in June last year.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the congregants were being herded into the paddy wagon...
the US military said Tuesday that coalition forces have carried out 20 Arclight airstrikes, bombing 10 ISIS-held cities and towns in Iraq and an equal number in Syria.

A bomb-making facility run by the group was destroyed in Arclight airstrikes on Monday on the Makhmour front and the gunnies were attacked in the nearby village of Kodila Shian, where ISIS casualties were still unknown, according to Peshmerga front man Col. Mala Mahdi.

The destruction of the bomb facility followed an ISIS missile attack on Makhmour last week, in which a 20-year-old woman was reportedly killed and two other women were badly maimed.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Okay. Air strikes are in the air. Peshmerga is Infantry--always capitalize Infantry--so how did they do the op together? Spotters? Somebody teach the Kurds how to call in tacair?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey   2015-08-13 22:13  

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