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Iraq
Iraqi airstrike kills six ISIS suspects in Kirkuk mountains
2025-01-12
[Rudaw] Iraqi F-16 warplanes targeted an 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) hideout in Kirkuk province on Friday, killing six hard boyz including a big shot, the Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) announced.

The Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
destroyed the hideout in the Hamrin Mountains and thwarted an attempted attack on Iraqi forces, CTS said in a statement, adding that the dead included "the leader, the deputy of the so-called governor of Kirkuk."

The operation was conducted in coordination with the army’s Joint Operations Command.

"The successive operations of our heroes continue to eradicate the remnants of the ISIS terrorist gangs," CTS stated.
Related:
Hamrin Mountains: 2025-01-08 Iraq strikes suspected ISIS cells in Hamrin Mountains
Hamrin Mountains: 2024-12-01 Iraqi airstrike kills five suspected ISIS militants in Kirkuk
Hamrin Mountains: 2024-11-12 Iraqi anti-ISIS airstrike kills four in Kirkuk
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