[Rudaw] Iraqi forces arrested two Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) holy warriors crossing the border from Syria, one of whom committed crimes against Yazidis, Iraq’s security media cell announced on Monday.
The ISIS holy warriors were detected with thermal cameras crossing the border from Syria into Iraq, the security media cell said.
One of them was responsible for planting booby-traps in the town of Baaj in Nineveh province, and the other was a so-called leader of raid forces and "participated in the captivity of the Yazidis," it added.
In other action against the terror group, Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s targeted tunnels used by ISIS holy warriors south of the bucolic provincial capital of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the cell said on Sunday.
Shingal, the heartland of Iraq’s Yazidi ethnoreligious minority, was overrun by ISIS in August 2014. Thousands were summarily executed, and more than 6,000 kidnapped and sold as slaves. More than 2,000 remain missing, according to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Office for Rescuing Kidnapped Yazidis.
The crimes against Yazidis have been recognized by many states as genocide.
Despite coordination and cooperation between the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Iraqi army to carry out military operations on the Syria-Iraq border and capture ISIS remnants, the terror group has been able to smuggle fighters and weapons through the border in recent years.
Nineveh province lies across the border from Syria’s Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor provinces, both of which are vulnerable to ISIS attacks. The group is particularly active in Deir ez-Zor, where members of the Kurdish-led SDF are often targeted.
The SDF carried out an operation to capture ISIS holy warriors on the Iraq-Syria border last week.
In February, security forces said nearly 100 ISIS holy warriors had entered crossed the border into Nineveh province in the space of one week.
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