[Rudaw] Nearly 30 people have been killed in Syria by the Islamic State
...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) attacks in the first two weeks of May, a war monitor reported on Friday.
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor, reported that ISIS launched 18 attacks in the first half of May, 13 of which were in the areas under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Deir ez-Zor, and five in the areas held by the Syrian regime.
Around 29 people were killed in the attacks, including a civilian.
ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly in the vast expanses of its eastern and northern desert where the group is active amid a security vacuum, have been on the rise in recent months, sparking fears of a possible resurgence.