...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) turbans were killed in an operation carried out by the Iraqi air force against the terror group in Diyala province, state media said on Sunday.
F-16 jets delivered an
...KABOOM!...
in the Sundij area of Diyala’s Kifri district, and the strike "resulted in the killing of members of the terrorist group and the destruction of their guesthouses," according to the country’s Joint Operations Command.
Iraqi and Kurdish security forces often carry out operations against members of the terror group despite an overall decline in their activities in recent years, and their hideouts are often tracked by the Iraqi air force and destroyed.
The turbans have particularly taken shelter in a security vacuum in parts of northern Iraq that are disputed between Baghdad and Erbil, stretching across several provinces including Diyala, Salahaddin, and Kirkuk.
The Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have discussed establishing joint brigades to secure areas disputed between the governments. Talks stalled because of elections and a year of political wrangling, but funds for two joint brigades are included in the draft 2023 budget.
In December, an Iraqi army spokesperson revealed that they had killed over 200 ISIS fighters in 2022.