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Iraq
Islamic State members killed, injured in operations, southwest of Kirkuk: Police
2018-07-31
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Several 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....
leaders were killed and injured as a security operation was carried out, southwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the Federal Police said on Monday.

Troops "carried out, today, an operation from two axes in Kirkuk," the police said in a statement, adding that the operations were at villages of al-Riyad and Hawija regions.

The villages, according to the statement, "Rebza, Shalaka, Wadi al-Naft, al-Mahmoudi and al-Deb."

The police managed to "kill many IS members and injure others."
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