[RUDAW.NET] US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes destroyed a military convoy of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) group in northern Iraq on Thursday, destroying armored vehicles and killing all the turbans, a Kurdish commander said.
"The (coalition) warplanes attacked ISIS elements as they were passing through a road in Halabiya village, east of the Dijla frontline," said Delshad Mawloud, a commander of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces.
Three armored vehicles that were in the convoy were destroyed and all ISIS fighters traveling with it were killed, he said, without specifying the number of casualties.
The village of Halabiya lies in an area that is in the frontline of the war between Kurdish forces and ISIS. It is east of the Dijla frontline and west of Aski djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a very small town in the eponymous province. |