...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 button men have attacked a Ramadan gathering hosted by a former official of a US-backed group in eastern Syria, killing seven and wounding four, opposition activists said Thursday.
The Wednesday night attack in the Abu Khashab area in Deir el-Zour province targeted the home of a former front man with the US backed Syrian Democratic Forces, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Euphrates Post news website.
Euphrates Post said the button men arrived on cycle of violences and opened fire as the group was having an iftar, the fast-breaking meal during the Moslem holy month of Ramadan at the home of former SDF front man Nouri Hameesh, who was among those killed.
Three years after IS lost the last sliver of territory it controlled, its sleeper cells have been increasing attacks in recent months, mainly targeting the Kurdish-led SDF but also forces from the Syrian government.
The attack took place on Wednesday night in the Abu Khashab area in Deir ez-Zor province and targeted the residence of the head of public relations of the province’s civil council, reported the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).