...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 an attack against Peshmerga forces in Kifri on the Kurdistan Region’s borders with Iraq late Friday, the ministry said in a statement. There were no casualties.
The Peshmerga ministry announced on Friday that ISIS attacked them on the Kifri-Garmaser border between the Sulaimani and Diyala provinces at 8pm, but that the attack was "forcefully and quickly responded to by Peshmerga forces", with no Peshmerga hurt.
According to the ministry, ISIS also attacked them in Pirde (Altun Kupri) on the Erbil-Kirkuk border late Wednesday, resulting in no casualties.
ISIS grabbed credit on Monday for a deadly attack against the Peshmerga in Pirde which killed two Peshmerga.
The group is especially active in the parts of northern Iraq that remain disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, including in the provinces of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Diyala and Salahaddin.