...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) turbans carried out multiple attacks against Iraqi forces overnight in Saladin province, killing 10 members of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
"Six fighters were martyred by live ammunition from ISIS [ISIS] terrorist members in Makishifiya area in the late hours of last night," said the Iraqi Security Media Cell in a statement at midday on Saturday. Another four were killed elsewhere in the Samarra area.
"Hashd al-Shaabi is facing several attacks from different fronts on its security points in Samarra vicinity," the PMF’s media tweeted in the early hours of Saturday morning. Hashd al-Shaabi is an Arabic name for the PMF.
Militants attacked the PMF at five different locations causing "great loss," the force stated.
Samarra is located 125 kilometres north of Baghdad in Saladin province.
The PMF also reported they blew up a "pick up vehicle which was carrying a group of ISIS [ISIS] fighters and was trying to attack a security point in Makishifiya."