...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) has conducted over 300 terrorist operations, killing hundreds of people in northern Syria, including Rojava, in the course of this year, a conflict monitor reported on Sunday as the re-emergence of the murderous Moslem group threatens the security of the area.
The terror group launched over 342 armed attacks in Deir ez-Zor, Hasaka, Raqqa and Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said in a recent report.
The attacks killed 228 people, among them are five children, nine women and 135 security members including officers of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), it added.
In joint operations with the US-led coalition, the SDF arrested 858 ISIS suspects since the beginning of the year.
Four hundred and nine of them were later released while the rest are still in detention, noted the monitor.
The SDF on Saturday announced the arrest of a prominent ISIS leader who was involved in a 2014 attack on the Kurdish town of Kobane in Rojava.
An alleged ISIS financier was arrested in Deir ez-Zor last month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed it conducted two attacks in Syria from December 16 to 22, killing and injuring 5 people.