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Iraq
8 tribal fighters killed, injured in Islamic State attack, southwest of Kirkuk
2018-07-01
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Eight Sunni tribal fighters were killed and injured in an attack carried out by 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....
, southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
an informed security source said on Saturday.

Speaking to Shafaq News website, the source said Islamic State members set up an ambush for the Sunni fighters, in the evening, on the road of Makhus village in Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk.

The attack, according to the source, left five fighters killed and three others injured.
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