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| Iraq |
| Iraqi forces partially retake western Mosul’s Tenek, 15 militants, one officer killed |
| 2017-04-14 |
| [Iraq News] Iraqi government forces on Thursday took partial control over an area in western djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... after 13 hours of fighting with 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... hard boyz as operations enter a tenth week to clear the region from the Lion of Islam group Cap. Saeed al-Alousi, from the Interior Ministry’s Rapid Response forces, told Anadolu Agency that forces from the army’s elite Counter-Terrorism Service took over seven alleyways at al-Tenek, a district that is considered one of IS’s most remarkable havens. CTS forces killed 15 hard boyz from the group and locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! three others, while losing one officer, he said. Bad weather at that area prompted the U.S.-led coalition to reduce Meanwhile, ...back at the palazzo, Count Guido had been cornered by the banditti... Cap. Ali Mohsen, from the CTS, told BasNews that the forces also freed 30 families previously kidnapped by IS to use them as human shields. He also put the number of hard boyz killed at 31, including five foreign jacket wallahs. Earlier on Thursday, the Federal Police command said its troops killed 13 hard boyz and advanced closer to the Nuri al-Kabir Mosque, a much-coveted target for the Iraqi troops being the place where Islamic State declared the establishment of its "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria. Iraqi government forces, backed by the coalition and paramilitary groups, recaptured eastern Mosul in January, and launched another offensive in February to retake the western region. Iraqi commanders said earlier this week that IS hard boyz were in control over less than seven percent of Iraqi territory. |
| Posted by:Fred |