Sniper kills five ISIS jhadists with only three bullets in Iraq

#ISIS #jihadists #Mosul #iraq An SAS sniper in Iraq killed five ISIS jihadists with only three bullets and succeeded in preventing a group of jihadists launching a suicide bomb attack in a dramatic shoot-out in an ISIS-held part of Iraq. The operation happened two weeks ago about 10-Km outside the ISIS stronghold of Mosul and is termed as a 'classic SAS mission'.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 14 December 2015.

The marksman, who had joined the SAS a decade ago had saved the lives of hundreds of innocent people - he fired three well-aimed shots at the jihadists as they left a bomb factory near Mosul. He got the go-ahead after the men were seen leaving the bomb factory wearing heavy coats in hot weather – it was a sign that they were trying to hide their suicide vests.
They were believed to be on their way to carry out a terror attack at a nearby town and had plans to detonate their suicide vests amongst hundreds of civilians that would lead to mass deaths.
The SAS veteran managed to eliminate all three of the extremists, as well as two 'guards' who were supposedly in place to keep a look-out and protect them from military forces. The sniper shot the first jihadi in the chest as he walked out of the factory - that resulted in his suicide vest to detonate. He was killed instantly and took with him the two ISIS 'guards' who were in a nearby car.
The second ISIS militant was shot in the head and the third was killed when the sniper's bullet struck his suicide vest and caused it to detonate.

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ISIS seizes Iraqi town al-Baghdadi located 5 miles from US air base

#ISIS #albaghdadi #iraq #alanbar #pentagon #alasadairbase ISIS has ideas of spreading its wings beyond Syria and Iraq in order to establish militant affiliates in other countries and hence have, apparently, seized the town of al-Baghdadi, in Iraq’s Anbar Province, located hardly 5 miles from an air base staffed by U.S. Marines.
As per reports on foxnews.com dated 15 February 2015, hundreds of Islamic State fighters have captured nearly the whole of the city of al-Baghdadi. This city is 55 miles from the capital Ramadi.
It seems earlier, Iraqi soldiers had retaken several government buildings, but the soldiers had to subsequently withdraw handing the town back to the militants. As one local Iraqi official has admitted – ninety percent of al-Baghdadi district is now under the control of the insurgents.
It has been revealed by the Pentagon that the ISIS militants had launched attack on the town of al-Baghdadi from two directions before advancing inward. This is seen by observers as the first territorial gain by the militant group in months.
Incidentally, the Islamic state fighters had led a suicide attack on the Ayn al-Asad air base, where U.S. Marines are training Iraqi troops. In this attack, most of the ISIS fighters died – they were either killed by Iraqi government forces or by detonating their suicide vests.
As per estimates, there were 20-25 militants, most of them in uniforms of the Iraqi military, involved in the attack on the air base located in Iraq's Anbar province.
American intelligence officials believe that the number of fighters in the terror group have reached as many as 31,000 in Syria and Iraq. Alongside, there are nearly 2,600 U.S. forces in Iraq and, out of these, about 450 are training Iraqi troops at three bases across the country. The base at al-Asad is one of these bases.

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Triple car bombing kills at least 28 Peshmerga veterans

Triple car bombing by IS militants have killed 28 Peshmerga veterans and injured another 90 – the veterans were on their way to re-enlist in the fight against Islamic State militants news.sky.com.

As per reports, the attack took place in a government compound in Qara Qubah – the dead included both civilians and soldiers. The actual casualty numbers is still not known because many others are still trapped in the debris.
Islamic State fighters have apparently claimed responsibility for the attacks – in Twitter they have indicated that three of the bombers were non-Iraqis who had been sent from Germany, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The attack was timed to coincide with the beginning of training that the British Army planned to impart to Kurdish forces on how to use heavy machine guns against the IS.

The attack on the Peshmerga fighters came after a bloody day of violence in Baghdad in which over 45 people were killed in a series of bombings that rocked Iraq's capital city. Three bombs were detonated in busy shopping areas - the first of these killed eight people outside an ice cream shop. And then just meters down the road in the neighborhood of Shaoula, another car blast killed 18 people.
Moreover, in countryside north of the city, a bomber wearing a suicide vest left 11 others fatally wounded.