...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
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(ISIS) activities in the country.
"Since the start of the year to this day, more than 21 high-profile members of terrorist organizations have been arrested through this coordination and intelligence cooperation between the [Iraqi] counter-terrorism service and the Sulaimani and Erbil counter-terrorism," Sabah al-Numan, spokesperson for the Iraqi CTS told Rudaw’s Rozhan Abubakir.
The services have cooperated together on more than 10 missions this year, according to Numan, adding that the arrestees were captured in the provinces of Sulaimani and Erbil, and were mostly Iraqi nationals.
The spokesperson disagreed with the claim that there has been a spike in ISIS operations in recent months, stating that the Death Eater group has been conducting "small" operations in areas far from the centers of the cities in ways that do not threaten the security of the country "according to our assessment."
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 12 attacks in Iraq from June 1 to June 7, killing and injuring 16 people.