...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) fighters only in 2022.
Major General Tahsin al-Khafaji, spokesperson for the Joint Operations Command, told Rudaw on Monday that "the number of ISIS fighters in Iraq is low and those existing are Iraqis." He added that the group has exploited the security gas between the Iraqi army and Kurdish Peshmerga forces in disputed areas.
"Over 200 snuffies have been killed through aerial attacks, with most of them being ISIS leaders," said the spokesperson.
Several Iraqi soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by ISIS in Kirkuk and Diyala recently.