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Iraq
Islamic state claims responsibility for gun attack north of Baghdad
2018-05-03
[Ynet] 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....
grabbed credit on Wednesday for a deadly gun attack near the Iraqi town of Tarmiya.

A security source had told Rooters that eight unarmed non-combatants were killed in the assault 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Islamic State said it killed 22 people, describing them all as members of a government-backed Sunni Moslem tribal force called the Tribal Mobilization Forces.
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