[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
murderous Moslems detonated a boom-mobile and then opened fire on Iraqi troops in the western province of Anbar on Thursday, killing 14 soldiers, security sources said.
Iraqi government forces and their Shi'ite militia allies are hoping to recapture Anbar's historic provincial capital Ramadi, which was seized by the ultra-hardline Sunni hard boyz last month.
Islamic State swept through northern Iraq last year and has since taken control of a third of the country, a major oil producer and OPEC member. It also holds large swathes of Syria.
Twenty seven soldiers were also maimed in Thursday's attack in Anbar's Nadheem al-Taqseem region.
In the town of Hit, west of Ramadi, artillery fire and rocket attacks targeted the local irrigation department, killing nine people and wounding 13.
The presence of Islamic State murderous Moslems has fueled a sectarian civil war.
Iraq's army relies on U.S.-led air strikes and a Shi'ite umbrella fighting group known as Hashd al-Shaabi, or popular mobilization committee, in its bid to a slow the advance of Islamic State.