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Eighteen people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his car packed with explosives outside of the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Jalawla. The suicide bomber then entered the building and detonated his vest. Security forces launched an operation to clear ISIS fighters from western Mosul.



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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 18 security personnel during a massed assault on Mosul; the military said it killed 105 AQAP fighters in a counterattack. ISIS fighters briefly seized control of Anbar University in Ramadi and killed three policemen before retreating.






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Nearly 800 killed in Iraq’s bloodiest month this year: UN



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Iraq PM calls for “jihad” against Anbar jihadists



Libya

US Training Elite Antiterror Troops in Four African Nations


Zawahiri again addresses jihadist infighting in Syria

In a newly released three-page statement, Ayman al Zawahiri again says that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS) owed its allegiance to al Qaeda’s senior leadership before disobeying orders. Any pledges of allegiance collected by the ISIS since then “are null pledges, because they arose from a direct violation of my command as his direct emir,” he states.


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Iraqi Kurdistan makes first oil sale amid exports row


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The military said it killed 20 Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters during a raid on a camp in Al Sadda near Fallujah. The ISIS executed eight soldiers after stopping their bus in Sulaiman Bek.



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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 14 people, including five policemen and soldiers, in attacks in Mosul, Baghdad, and Mahmoudiya. A candidate in the recent election was kidnapped in Baghdad. Iran is calling on Iraq to send more than 3,000 members of the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran home to face a […]


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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed five Awakening fighters in Balad and two soldiers in Baghdad. Security forces killed eight ISIS fighters while sinking their boat on the Tigris river south of Mosul. The military destroyed three ISIS camps in Rawa.


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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 29 people in a series of attacks in and around Baghdad. In one attack, Army officers were executed after being stopped at a fake ISIS checkpoint. Security forces captured six Ansar al Islam fighters in Kirkuk.



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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 24 people, including three soldiers, in a series of bombings in Baghdad. In Rashad, a suicide bomber killed five soldiers. The ISIS’s spokesman rejected Ayman al Zawahiri’s plea for the group to quit Syria and return to Iraq.



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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham captured and then executed 20 Iraqi soldiers in Ain al-Jahash in Ninewa province. The ISIS also killed six policemen, six soldiers, and a member of the Ninewa provincial council in attacks throughout the country.


Iran

Christians persecuted at alarming rate in Iran, Arab world, US report says


ISIS executes 20 Iraqi soldiers

Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham fighters dressed in military uniforms captured 20 soldiers after ambushing their convoy, and shot them in the head shortly afterward.



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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham killed 19 people in a series of bombings and attacks in Baghdad, Dujail, Dawr, and Tarmiyah. Six of those were killed by a suicide bomber in Dujail. Awakening fighters discovered the bodies of 11 taxi drivers who were executed.


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The Iraqi military has launched an offensive to retake the city of Fallujah from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham and allied tribes. Thirteen civilians have been killed in the military’s artillery attacks. The ISIS killed three people in an IED attack at a wedding in Baghdad.