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Iraqi security forces have killed 48 of the gunmen who stormed parts of Kirkuk in a shock attack claimed by the Islamic State group, the city's police chief said.
"Forty-eight Daesh (IS) terrorists have been killed in the clashes," Brigadier General Khattab Omar Aref told AFP, adding that some of them blew themselves up when the security forces cornered them.
Special counter-terrorism and intelligence units were hunting down some of the dozens of IS fighters who stormed public buildings in the early hours of Friday.
Clashes have been taking place almost uninterrupted since and the city, which lies some 150 miles north of Baghdad, remains under curfew.
A senior interior ministry official said that at least 46 other people had been killed in the IS raid and ensuing clashes, mostly members of the security forces.
"The security forces control the situation now but there are still pockets of jihadists in some southern and eastern neighborhoods," Aref said.
"We have foiled this large Daesh plot, which was to take control of government buildings, including security headquarters," he said.
"They were denied just like they are being defeated on the outskirts of Mosul," the police chief said, in reference to the ongoing offensive by tens of thousands of Iraqi forces to wrest back the city of Mosul, IS's last major stronghold in Iraq.
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"Forty-eight Daesh (IS) terrorists have been killed in the clashes," Brigadier General Khattab Omar Aref told AFP, adding that some of them blew themselves up when the security forces cornered them.
Special counter-terrorism and intelligence units were hunting down some of the dozens of IS fighters who stormed public buildings in the early hours of Friday.
Clashes have been taking place almost uninterrupted since and the city, which lies some 150 miles north of Baghdad, remains under curfew.
A senior interior ministry official said that at least 46 other people had been killed in the IS raid and ensuing clashes, mostly members of the security forces.
"The security forces control the situation now but there are still pockets of jihadists in some southern and eastern neighborhoods," Aref said.
"We have foiled this large Daesh plot, which was to take control of government buildings, including security headquarters," he said.
"They were denied just like they are being defeated on the outskirts of Mosul," the police chief said, in reference to the ongoing offensive by tens of thousands of Iraqi forces to wrest back the city of Mosul, IS's last major stronghold in Iraq.
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Iraqi Forces Kill 48 IS Attackers in Kirkuk
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News like this reminds me of the Vietnam War where body count statistics were rolled out as a metric SP5 Mark Kuzinski. In any event I am glad that ISIS members are being killed or blowing themselves up. They each got the shock of eternity when they realized they had been working to honor a god that does not exist as they were brought before the true God.
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It appears the incoming POTUS may be dealing with a substantially weakened Isis. That said, the area's general instability, particularly overflowing from Syria with other players fanning the flames, will be a continued source of challenge.
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