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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on August 11, 2019, 04:28:39 pm
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Iraqi security free two men kidnapped by ISIS in Kirkuk
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The two men were kidnapped by Islamic State sleeper cells but were rescued by Iraqi federal police. (Photo: Iraqi Federal Police)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq’s federal police on Sunday announced they had rescued two individuals who were recently kidnapped by Islamic State members in Kirkuk.
The rescue operation came during an anti-Islamic State push that police forces carried out in Zghitoun Valley, located to the south of Kirkuk Province, the Iraqi Federal Police said in a statement.
It added that the freed individuals had been kidnapped “two weeks ago in southern Kirkuk,†identifying them as Hazem Ahmad Aziz and Bassem Rahim Daher.
Read more at: https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/06094c98-cb97-4258-a514-790c1a7a5245 (https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/06094c98-cb97-4258-a514-790c1a7a5245)
I'm glad they are free, their tunics appear largely clean but maybe they were given those after they were freed.