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Title: Six ISIS Terrorists, including Top Leader, Killed in 'Security Sweeps' N. Kirkuk in Iraq
Post by: TomSea on April 09, 2018, 03:12:20 pm

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Six ISIS Terrorists, including Top Leader, Killed in 'Security Sweeps' N. Kirkuk in Iraq

Iraqi volunteers survey positions south of Kirkuk (AFP/File Photo)

At least six ISIS terrorists, including a top group leader, were killed in two separate security sweeps carried out in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province, local security sources said Monday.

“Security forces killed senior ISIS leader Abu Walid al-Shishani in a remote area close to Kirkuk city,” a senior Iraqi intelligence officer said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The source described al-Shishani as a “close associate” of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and “the mastermind” behind a string of recent ISIS attacks in Kirkuk.

Read more at: https://www.albawaba.com/news/six-isis-terrorists-including-top-leader-killed-security-sweeps-n-kirkuk-iraq-1114808 (https://www.albawaba.com/news/six-isis-terrorists-including-top-leader-killed-security-sweeps-n-kirkuk-iraq-1114808)

Title: Re: Six ISIS Terrorists, including Top Leader, Killed in 'Security Sweeps' N. Kirkuk in Iraq
Post by: Sanguine on April 10, 2018, 12:03:23 am

I thought we had won the war against ISIS?

Title: Re: Six ISIS Terrorists, including Top Leader, Killed in 'Security Sweeps' N. Kirkuk in Iraq
Post by: dfwgator on April 10, 2018, 12:17:26 am

Big deal,   six more will pop right back up...."Whack-A-Mole"