...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday.
The ministry added that the deployment is to fill a security void left by lack of any presence of armed forces in the mountainous region near Qarachogh and its surrounding villages.
Security Control, 14th Infantry Division of the Iraqi Army is tasked with securing the area.
The division is responsible for laying out ambushes, setting up checkpoints, carrying out raids, and filling the security vacuum between the villages of Pungina and Bir Mehdi, near Mount Qarachogh.
Dibis, in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
province, is 56 kilometres south of Erbil. Makhmour, in Kirkuk province, is 60 kilometres southwest of the Kurdistan Region capital.
Rashad Galali, head of the PUK office in Makhmour told Rudaw that upon a decree from Baghdad "the 14th Infantry Division has been incorporated into the Kirkuk Operations Command and they have been deployed along the [Makhmour-Dibis] road."
Galali confirmed that they have erected outposts and checkpoints to "protect the security of the area."
ISIS was declared defeated in Iraq in December 2017 by former PM Haider al-Abadi. However,
Caliphornia hasn't yet slid into the ocean, no matter how hard it's tried...
between 14,000 and 18,000 ISIS gunnies are estimated to still be operating in Iraq and Syria, according to a UN report in February.
ISIS hard boys, keen to recuperate their strength following their territorial defeat in Iraq, have now set their sights on the spring harvest of 27 villages on both sides of the Qarachogh mountains.
ISIS cells hiding out in the Qarachogh mountains have torched several local crop fields in recent weeks as farmers have refused to pay taxes that the gunnies are demanding.