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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least 19 Islamic State (ISIS) militants were killed in Mosul on Wednesday while preparing a car bomb, a Kurdish official told Rudaw.Ismat Rajab, a Kurdish politician for Mosul areas said that sources inside the city told him that the militants were of Afghan nationality.Mosul is ISIS's stronghold in Iraq from where many car bomb attacks have been launched against the Kurdish Peshmerga in the last year and a half.The Kurdish Peshmerga maintain miles-long defense lines east and west of Mosul.