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ISIS kills two PMF fighters in Salahaddin |
2024-01-07 |
[Rudaw] At least two fighters of the pro-Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word Iranis a cognate form of Aryan.The abbreviation IRGCis the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either Duceor Führeror maybe both. They hate Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) were killed Saturday in a suspected 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) attack in Salahaddin province, a military source said, as Iraq seeks to expel a US-led anti-ISIS coalition from the country. "A number of ISIS fighters today evening overran a Hashd position ... killing two Hashd fighters and injuring three others," Kawa Shekhani, military advisor to Salahaddin’s governor, told Rudaw’s Sirwan Abbas. The ISIS forces of Evil fled and the injured PMF fighters were taken to Tikrit ...birthplace of Saddam Hussein... hospital, Shekhani added. Despite its territorial defeat, the group has continued to pose a serious security threat to the country through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions in several provinces, particularly in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad which stretch across the provinces of Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh. In the early hours of Sunday, Iraqi air force jets struck three suspected ISIS hideouts in Diyala province and "achieved direct hits on the defeated terrorist elements," the country’s Security Media Cell said. |
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Nearly 1,500 unidentified bodies recovered in Mosul since ISIS war, says official |
2023-09-09 |
[Rudaw] There are nearly 1,500 bodies of unidentified people that have been uncovered in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... since the city was retaken from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) faceless myrmidons around six years ago, the forensics medicine department in Nineveh said on Wednesday. "The number of unidentified bodies recovered since the liberation of Mosul from the old areas of the city reached 1,495 bodies, while the number of known bodies whose graves were uncovered reached 3,749," Shahed Arif Hamid, the director of forensics medicine in Nineveh province, told Rudaw’s Mushtaq Ramadhan. ISIS swept through Iraq in 2014, capturing cities across the center and north of the country in a brazen offensive, including Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, where the group’s former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared its so-called "caliphate." The city was retaken in a major Iraqi and Kurdish counteroffensive in 2017, supported by the US-led global coalition. According to Hamid, Mosul’s civil defense teams, who are responsible for uncovering remains from the rubble, receive fewer remains than previous years as there are no decomposing bodies left. "If there is no claimant, the remains are left unidentified and in storage until a database for missing persons is announced, and anyone who has lost a relative must donate blood to match the samples with the missing bodies," she said. Mosul’s Old City, on the western bank of the Tigris River that divides the city into two, was severely damaged as a result of the fight against ISIS and bombardments by both the Iraqi air force and the US-led coalition. The process of uncovering bodies in Nineveh province began in May 2018, through government teams and volunteers. According to statistics from Iraq’s High Commission for Human Rights, there are more than 800 bodies of children among the bodies of civilians exhumed in Mosul. |
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Iraqi warplanes kill 3 suspected ISIS militants in Salahaddin |
2023-09-04 |
30-08-2023 [Rudaw] At least three suspected 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) members were killed and their hideouts destroyed when the Iraqi air force targeted their hideouts in Salahaddin province on Wednesday, state media reported. Iraqi F-16 jets "carried out a successful strike today when they targeted a terrorist detachment, killing three murderous Moslems and destroying four guesthouses, tunnels, and caves, in the al-Aith area within Salahaddin," state media cited a statement by the Joint Operations Command as saying. The strikes in al-Aith targeted the same region where a French soldier was ambushed and killed by ISIS Lions of Islam on Monday while embedded with a dispatch of French troops assisting the Iraqi army in an anti-terror operation. Related: Salahaddin: 2023-08-17 Iraqi warplanes target ISIS hideout in Kirkuk Salahaddin: 2023-07-28 Suspect in infamous ISIS massacre arrested in Sulaimani Salahaddin: 2023-06-27 Iraqi soldier, three ISIS militants killed in Kirkuk Related: Al-Aith: 2021-06-23 The body of a farmer and his son found two hours after they were kidnapped by ISIS in Diyala Al-Aith: 2018-08-15 Diyala dead & otherwise dudes: turban attack on checkpoint foiled, farmer kaboomed Al-Aith: 2018-08-13 Salahuddin adventures: 1 turban tied up, 14 more permanently unwound while attacking, turbans attack Baiji refinery again |
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Iraqi warplanes target ISIS hideout in Kirkuk |
2023-08-17 |
[Rudaw] An alleged 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) hideout in Kirkuk province was destroyed on Wednesday after it was targeted by the Iraqi air force, the country’s Security Media Cell reported. Iraqi F-16 jets "destroyed a hideout of ISIS gangs in the Zghitun valley" in western Kirkuk in coordination with the Kirkuk Operations Command, according to the cell, who did not disclose information about casualties inflicted in the air raid. ISIS seized control of swathes of land in Iraq in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces. The ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Salahaddin, and Diyala. Iraq’s air force regularly pursues and targets ISIS hideouts across the country, particularly in the disputed areas. |
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Iraqi warplanes strike suspected ISIS members in Diyala |
2023-05-08 |
[Rudaw] A number of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) turbans were killed in an operation carried out by the Iraqi air force against the terror group in Diyala province, state media said on Sunday. F-16 jets delivered an ... KABOOM!... in the Sundij area of Diyala’s Kifri district, and the strike "resulted in the killing of members of the terrorist group and the destruction of their guesthouses," according to the country’s Joint Operations Command. Iraqi and Kurdish security forces often carry out operations against members of the terror group despite an overall decline in their activities in recent years, and their hideouts are often tracked by the Iraqi air force and destroyed. The turbans have particularly taken shelter in a security vacuum in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed between Baghdad and Erbil, stretching across several provinces including Diyala, Salahaddin, and Kirkuk. The Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have discussed establishing joint brigades to secure areas disputed between the governments. Talks stalled because of elections and a year of political wrangling, but funds for two joint brigades are included in the draft 2023 budget. In December, an Iraqi army spokesperson revealed that they had killed over 200 ISIS fighters in 2022. |
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Iraqi Army, Peshmerga Launch Joint Operation Against ISIS South Of Erbil | |
2022-07-20 | |
Iraqi Security Media Cell announced on Tuesday the launch of a joint operation with Peshmerga forces against ISIS, focused on an area adjacent to the administrative borders of Erbil Governorate to the south. In a statement, the cell said that the operation was launched, at dawn today, Tuesday, and is the fourth stage of Operation Solid Will, aimed at pursuing the remnants of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Jabal Qarah Dagh Mountain. Alternate spelling Qarachogh. The operation is taking place in a joint security operation, in which units from the 14th and 16th Divisions reinforced with tanks, and units of the Peshmerga forces, and forces of the Counter-Terrorism Service participated as well. The operation is backed by Iraqi army aircraft, according to the statement, in accordance with security understandings between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga.
Mount Qarachogh and its vicinity are located in a security vacuum between Baghdad and Erbil, stretching across several provinces including Kirkuk, Salahaddin, and Diyala, where locals live in constant fear of ISIS attacks. Kurdish security forces on Thursday with coalition support announced they had taken down four members of ISIS who were behind a deadly attack that killed ten Peshmerga and three civilians in villages at the foothill of Mount Qarachogh. The latest phase of Operation Solid Will comes three months after Iraq conducted another phase in its western provinces under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command and with the participation of numerous forces including the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). A Peshmerga operation in Mount Qarachogh in May led to the deaths of two ISIS fighters and the destruction of the jihadists' hideouts. In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 4 attacks in Iraq from July 7 to July 13, killing and injuring 6 people. | |
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Iraq launches new phase of anti-ISIS operation in west of the country |
2022-04-24 |
[Rudaw] Iraqi armed forces on Saturday launched the second phase of a broad security operation in western provinces in an attempt to pursue and eliminate 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) in these areas, Iraqi Security Media Cell announced. Dubbed Solid Will, the new phase of the operation is carried out under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command units and participated by the Border Guard Command, Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi), Iraqi Special Forces, the Counter-Terrorism Service, and the Rapid Response Division, according to the statement from the cell. "These operations, carried out by the security forces, aims to dry up the sources of terrorism, pursue ISIS terrorist elements, and clear the lands from the taint of terrorism and crime in its various forms," it added. The operation seeks to eliminate the threat of ISIS through setting specific targets in different areas in the western provinces, and will heavily rely on accurate information from the intelligence agencies and the support of Iraqi air forces. Iraqi PM Mustafa al-Kadhimi arrived in Anbar province hours after the new phase started to closely monitor the campaign. "I say to ISIS: You have tested us in various fields, militarily and security, praise be to God that we record victory after victory on a daily basis, and you are losing day after day," the PM’s office cited Kadhimi saying in a speech in Anbar. The first phase of Solid Will, which sought to pursue ISIS remnants in Salahaddin, Anbar, and Nineveh, was conducted on March 29, lasting for three days. It resulted in the destruction of 19 ISIS dens and six tunnels, in addition to finding numerous explosive-laden vehicles, booby-trapped houses, an explosive lab, and a number of weapons and ammunition, including four Katyusha rockets, two RBG7 launchers, and 30 projectiles. Iraq’s Intelligence Agency said on Thursday that it killed four ISIS members in Salahaddin province during an ... KABOOM!... A base of Tribal Sunni forces in northern Diyala province was attacked by suspected ISIS members on Tuesday, killing four of the turbans in the festivities that ensued. |
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Iraqi forces kill ISIS members in Saladin |
2022-02-18 |
Shafaq News/ On Thursday, the Iraqi security forces killed ISIS members east of Saladin Governorate. A source told Shafaq News Agency that forces from Saladin command raided ISIS hideouts in Wadi Diaba, east of al-Dur district within the Metebije sector. The Iraqi air forces also struck the hideouts intensively, which killed several SIS members. In 2017, Iraq declared final victory over ISIS after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory. The war has had a devastating impact on the areas previously controlled by the militants. About 3.2 million people remain displaced. Yet, ISIS still has sleeper cells in several Iraqi Governorates. Recently, the terrorist organization has become more active, as sleeper cells target civilians and security forces, especially in the governorates of Kirkuk, Saladin, and Diyala, known as "the Triangle of Death." |
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Iraqi security forces arrests two ISIS Bad Guys in Ninevah |
2022-02-01 |
The Federal Intelligence and Investigation Agency the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior announced, on Monday, the arrest of the leader of Umar Bin al-Khattab Brigade and one of his aides of the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) in Nineveh Governorate, west the country. The ISIS leader involved in several invasions against the Iraqi forces in Makhoul Mount, north of Saladin Governorate, and then was designated as the leader of Umar Bin al-Khattab Brigade and involved in the battle of Mosul against the security forces, according to the agency. In 2019, he returned to the Iraqi capital Baghdad in order to inspect the conditions there, gather information, and implement operations there. As for his aide, he worked for the “Islamic Police” and involved in invasions in Makhoul Mount, then he returned to Mosel where he was designated to fight against the Iraqi security forces aiming to regain control over Mosel. Meanwhile, the statement did not mention details about the identity of the ISIS leader and his aide. |
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Iraqi air force targets four ISIS members in Salahaddin |
2022-01-25 |
[Rudaw] A number of 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) members were killed in an operation carried out by the Iraqi air force against the terror group in the north of the country, a military official said on Monday. F-16 jets launched four ... KABOOM!... s eastern Makhoul Mount in Salahaddin, killing four ISIS members, Iraq's top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool said in a tweet. The operation against the terror group come two days after an airstrike killed three ISIS members, including two leaders in the south of Hatra city in Iraq. |
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Iraq Security forces kill four ISIS terrorists in Diyala |
2021-12-29 |
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The Security Media Cell announced killing four ISIS turbans in a combing campaign in Hamrin Mountain Range, in Diyala governorate. The Cell said in a statement that the Diyala Operation Command that one of its forces clashed with ISIS turbans and killed four of them. The statement noted that the military operation was launched three days ago and is still ongoing. |
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