...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) button men on Monday killed the head of a local council in an ambush in an area controlled by Kurdish forces in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor reported.
"The head of al-Azba and Marat local council in the northern countryside of Deir ez-Zor was killed after being directly targeted by unknown button men believed to be affiliated with ISIS cells on the main street of al-Azba," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
The ambush, which also injured a woman and a child, took place in northern Deir ez-Zor, controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
It is the latest in a spate of ISIS attacks in Syria, particularly from the desert regions where jihadist cells maintain a presence.
Control of Deir ez-Zor province, which borders Iraq, is split between the SDF and the Iran-backed Syrian regime. It is also home to many of the country’s key oilfields, such as Omar and Conoco, which the global coalition helps the SDF to control.