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Iraq
Nine ISIS Bad Guys killed in an airstrike UPDATE: 3 of the deaders Lebanese
2022-01-30


Ongoing military operation in northeast Diyala resulted in killing nine ISIS bully boyz involved in an attack on a headquarters of the Iraqi army in al-Udhaim basin earlier this month, the Security Media Cell (SMC) said on Saturday.

SMC said that the National Security Agency (NSA) was able to determine the exact location of the krazed killer group that waged the brazen attack on the army headquarters in al-Udhaim on January 21.

In coordination with the Joint Operations Command (JOC) of the Iraqi army, the Iraqi airforces' F-16 carried out a series of three Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, killing nine terrorists.

The operation is still underway, according to SMC.

On January 21, button men from 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....
holy warrior group attacked an army barracks in al-Udhaim mountainous area in northeast Diyala, killing ten soldiers and an officer as they slept.
Update from the Times of Israel at 3:10 p.m. ET:
A security official tells The Associated Press that four among the killed were Lebanese, natives of the northern town of Tripoli. He speaks on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to reporters.
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Diyala: 2022-01-29 Security forces launch a combing campaign in al-Abbara district
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