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Anadolu Agency (15 January 2019)

By Ali Mukarrem Garip

KIRKUK, Iraq

The number of Daesh terrorists has increased significantly in and around Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi official said Tuesday.

Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Kirkuk Governor Rakan Saeed al-Jabouri said the number of Daesh members now holed up in areas south of the city had reached “serious levels”.

“Numerous terrorists are hiding out in the Hamrin Mountains and in rural parts of the Zegheton and Abu Hanajer valleys,” he said, going on to assert that the alleged terrorist cadres “pose a real threat to the city”.

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