...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) snuffies clashed with Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces, or PMF) forces in the Shingal village of Bab al-Khan on Wednesday, in another alarming sign of ISIS resurgence in Iraq.
Islamic State snuffies attacked Bab al-Khan village and clashed with both the predominantly Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and Sunni tribal Hashd al-Ashairy paramilitias near Shingal’s cement factory, deputy governor of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
province Sirwan Rozhbayani told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
In a follow-up operation after the attack, five ISIS snuffies were killed by the Iraqi security forces and Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitias in the mountains around Shingal, confirmed a Wednesday tweet by Iraqi Security Media Cell front man Yehia Rasool.
ISIS snuffies stormed Yezidi communities in Iraq’s Shingal region in 2014, when the group was at the height of its power and its self-styled caliphate spanned a third of both Syria and Iraq.
When ISIS moved to take the eastern Shingal village Bab al-Khan, its residents fled.
The village, along with others in its vicinity, has remained unpopulated, with thousands of Yezidis still living in IDP camps across the Kurdistan Region. A lack of security, jobs, and basic services has prevented many of the estimated 200,000 displaced from returning home.
Reluctance to return has been confounded by uncertainty around security in the area, due to the presence of different militias and forces in the area claimed by both the Iraqi federal government and Kurdistan Regional Government.