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Iraq
Iraqi forces launch new military operation in northeast province
2020-04-04
[ALMASDARNEWS] The Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi) announced on Friday a new military operation to hunt down the remnants 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....
 (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) in the northeastern province of Diyala,.

Citing a statement from the Popular Mobilization Units, al-Sumaria TV reported that their forces targeted the Islamic State’s positions in Khanna, south of Khanaqin, in the eastern countryside of the Diyala Governorate.

The statement added that "the operation aims to eliminate the remnants of ISIS in that region and fully secure the area."

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