...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
...embracing their inner Islamic Brute.../ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist group near the Hamimah region of the Homs Governorate, a source told al-Masdar News.
According to the military source, the Syrian Arab Army troops near the Hamimah region were ambushed by a group of Islamic State turbans as they were posted up in this desert area.
As a result of the Islamic State ambush, the Syrian Arab Army and their allies from the National Defense Forces (SDF) suffered over ten casualties in the Badiya al-Sham region southeast of Palmyra city.
Tuesday’s attack by the Islamic State marked the first time since the Syrian Arab Army carried out their Deir Ezzor desert operation that the terrorist group has carried out an assault of this size.
The Islamic State sleeper cells have have been operating in the desert region near Palmyra for several years now, but since they lost most of their territories inside Syria, they have been limited to this area because of the plethora of caves.
ISIS uses these caves to hide out from Syrian
...
KABOOM!...
s and to store military equipment and supplies so they can carry out these types of attacks.
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Islamic State: 2019-09-16 IDP camps in Sulaimani closed as families return home
Islamic State: 2019-09-16 Iraqi army destroys Islamic State arms depot in Diyala
Islamic State: 2019-09-16 Hamza bin Laden killed in U.S. raid in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region: White House
Islamic State: 2019-09-16 IDP camps in Sulaimani closed as families return home
Islamic State: 2019-09-16 Iraqi army destroys Islamic State arms depot in Diyala