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Iraq
Military intelligence kill IS leader, four aides in northern Iraq
2019-10-03
Even in the midst of the more or less spontaneous popular uprising, ISIS still needs to be dealt with.
Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Iraqi military intelligence announced on Wednesday that a notorious leader of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslem group and four of his aides were killed during a military operation in Salahuddin province, north of Iraq.

"Troops of the Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate, in cooperation with the 88th brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces and the Iraqi Air Force, carried out a military operation in Hamrin Mountains in Salahuddin, leaving an IS leader and four of his aides dead," Alghad Press quoted the directorate as saying in a press statement.

The IS leader was identified as Talib Garw al Azzawy, the directorate said.

The troops also destroyed nine terrorist hotbeds in the operation, added the statement.
Related:
Hamrin Mountains: 2019-07-14 Iraqi paramilitary forces destroy IS largest hideout in Hamrin Mount
Hamrin Mountains: 2019-05-13 Iraqi troops kill 3 Islamic State suicide bombers in Salahuddin
Hamrin Mountains: 2019-04-15 ISIS militants execute Iraqi mukhtars, militiamen in new video
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