[Rudaw] At least five suspected 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) snuffies were killed in an Iraqi Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
on the Hamrin Mountains in Kirkuk province, the army announced on Saturday.
"After the heroic Air Falcons carried out precise airstrikes using F-16 aircraft... a joint force at dawn on Saturday began searching the site of the airstrikes, finding the bodies of five terrorists," the army’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
"Weapons, ammunition, explosives, logistical materials, and communication devices" were also found at the site, the statement added.
The strike in territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is the latest in an ongoing effort by Baghdad to rid the country of ISIS cells in areas where a security vacuum allows them to operate.
In its latest report on anti-ISIS operations, the Pentagon said that ISIS is a bigger threat in Syria than it is in Iraq.
In Iraq, "ISIS displayed limited capabilities, conducting the lowest number of attacks observed since the onset of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq in 2003. The group also showed no significant improvement in attack sophistication," said the report from October 29. 
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