...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....
group (ISIS) snuffies attacked the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, or Hashd al-Shaabi) in Salahaddin province late Wednesday, killing two fighters, the pro-Iran
...Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979...Shiite group said in a statement.
Hashd said in the statement that ISIS attacked their forces in al-Fathah district of Salahaddin, killing two of its fighters and injuring four others "during confrontations."
"A force from the [Hashd] brigade carried out a security operation to pursue the terrorist organization's cells following its latest attack," it added.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 9 attacks in Iraq from December 9 to December 15, killing and injuring 25 people.
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