Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The pro-Iraqi government paramilitary troops have shelled Islamic State...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....
members gathering inside Syrian lands, the media service of the forces announced on Thursday.
In a statement, al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said, "information from intelligence department showed that Islamic State members were gathering in Syria and that they were planning for an attack against the 29th brigade of the troops in Tal Sufuk, taking advantage of the bad weather."
The troops, according to the statement, "fired missiles to shell the myrmidons, leaving many of them killed and injured."
| Al Masdar News adds: |
...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....
(ISIS) holy warriors inside Syria’s Deir Ezzor Governorate.
Led by their Popular Mobilization Units (var. Hashd al-Sha’abi), the Iraqi forces struck the Islamic State’s forces in Deir Ezzor with missiles and artillery shells.
According to a statement from Hashd al-Sha’abi, their forces struck the Islamic State
The statement added that scores of Islamic State holy warriors were either killed or maimed as a result of their attack.