...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) attack in Diyala province on Sunday night.
Telegram channels affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) on Sunday said that ISIS snuffies had attacked Iraqi security forces in Diyala province, during which five members of the Iraqi security forces were maimed.
The groups later reported the death of one of the injured and identified him as a commander in the forces.
According to a report published last month by Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, there is little evidence of a significant ISIS resurgence in Iraq, with the snuffies increasingly isolated from the population.
"The Islamic State’s insurgency in Iraq underwent a steep decline over the last 20 months," the global security think-tank stated. "A comprehensive analysis of attack metrics shows an insurgency that has tanked in both the quality of its operations and overall volume of attack activity, which has fallen to its lowest point since 2003."
The terror group launched over 257 offensives, killing 387 and injuring 518 people, including Iraqi and Kurdish fighters over the past year
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 19 attacks in Iraq from January 27 to February 2, killing and injuring 30 people.