...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) Death Eaters were killed in an
...KABOOM!...
carried out by the Iraqi air force in Diyala province, the army announced on Friday.
Iraqi warplanes "carried out a successful airstrike using F-16 aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains within the Diyala Operations Command sector, targeting a terrorist hideout with a terrorist detachment with three elements inside," the army’s Joint Operations Command said in a statement.
All three suspected Death Eaters were killed in the strike, the statement added, and "all weapons and equipment inside the hideout were destroyed."
The strike was the second on suspected ISIS locations in the Hamrin Mountain range within a month, with a previous bombardment in late August killing another jihadist cell.
Iraq’s air force regularly pursues and targets ISIS hideouts across the country, particularly in the disputed areas.
To combat ISIS in these areas, the Iraqi government and the KRG’s Peshmerga ministry agreed in 2021 to form two joint brigades that will be under full control of Baghdad.
In late August, a joint operation by the Iraqi army and US forces in the western Anbar province killed 16 ISIS Death Eaters.
In June, at least seven ISIS members were killed in two separate airstrikes in Salahaddin, days after three ISIS members were killed in an operation in Kirkuk.