...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's sleeper cells.
U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said their raids had reportedly thwarted an attack planned for New Year's Eve. The IS Death Eaters were hiding in residential areas and farms, a statement from the forces said.
The yearslong U.S.-backed campaign had succeeded in crushing the krazed killers' territorial control in Iraq and Syria, but IS fighters maintain sleeper cells and have staged attacks that have killed scores of Iraqis and Syrians in the past months.
On Thursday, the Syrian Kurdish-led forces announced their operation, citing a surge in IS attacks and saying that ``Operation al-Jazeera Thunderbolt'' aims to target sleeper cells in al-Hol and nearby in Tal Hamis areas.
Some 900 U.S. troops in Syria support the Kurdish-led forces' fight against IS and have frequently targeted IS krazed killers, mostly in parts of northeastern Syria under Kurdish control.
The U.S. Central Command on Thursday reported conducting some 313 operations against IS in 2022 in Syria and Iraq, mostly in cooperation with Kurdish-led forces. According to a CENTCOM statement, 215 Death Eaters from the Islamic State group were arrested and 466 were killed in Syria.
Keeping ‘em busy at home so they won’t turn their sights to creating trouble elsewhere, especially on our home ground.