...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....
hotbeds containing a large cache of weapons and ammunition in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
"Acting on intelligence information, federal police forces found a hideout belonging to the terrorist Islamic State group in Tel Rahma area in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
" Maj. Gen. Saad Maan, the ministry front man, said in a press statement.
"Eight explosive charges, 200 bullets, four missiles and an Islam State flag were found inside the hotbed," the front man said.
He added that another IS hotbed was found in Anana village in Kirkuk.
"The two hotbeds were completely destroyed, and the seized weapons were handed over to the competent authorities," the front man noted.