[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces on Thursday destroyed the "main" 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) hideout in the Hamrin mountain range that crosses Kirkuk and Salahaddin governorates, as Erbil and Baghdad work towards forming two joint brigades to counter the Death Eater group’s remnants.
In coordination with the Joint Operation Command, an Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
targeted an ISIS hideout that is "considered to be the operation center for launching terrorist attacks in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" the Security Media Cell said.
Four members of the Death Eater group died, it added, as the search for other ISIS hideouts continues.
Militants have conducted around 134 attacks in disputed territories so far this year, Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Jabar Yawar told Rudaw last month, noting that most of the attacks took place in areas between Kifri and Tuz Khurmatu, as well as in eastern and western Kirkuk.
In the latest edition of its weekly propaganda magazine al-Nabaa, ISIS claimed it carried out 22 attacks in Iraq, killing and injuring 49 people. 
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