...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....
hard boys.
The blast Monday, which occurred at a security checkpoint outside Jurf al-Sakhar, maimed another 25. The attacker was driving a Humvee vehicle packed with explosives.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Sunday that recapturing Jurf-al-Sakhar, located about 50 kilometers south of Baghdad, was a "fatal blow" against the Islamic State group.
The Sunni holy warriors had held the town since July.
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
Syria's state news agency SANA reported on Monday that the government was providing military support to Kurdish forces to help them battle Islamic State fighters.
The action, if true, would mean
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
and his Western enemies could be backing the same forces against Islamist hard boys.
The main Syrian Kurdish party, which has repeatedly denied that it has cooperated with the Damascus government, described the report as propaganda.
SANA said that the aid included direct and indirect military support but did not say which groups were recipients or when Damascus last sent military aid to Kurds.