...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) group was killed after he went
kaboom!during an operation in the country’s southwestern Daraa province, state media reported.
SANA said the Syrian army carried out a "qualitative security operation" which resulted in the takedown of Abu Salem al-Iraqi in Adwan town after he went
kaboom!after being surrounded.
The operation also resulted in the death of a member of the security forces and a civilian, SANA’s statement added.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) war monitor said Iraqi was killed on Tuesday.
Iraqi’s death marks the second ISIS leader killed in the war-torn country in under a month.
In July, the top ISIS leader in Syria Maher al-Agal was killed by a US Central Command dronezap in Afrin district, with another top jihadist associate also injured in the strike.
Daraa province, where the Syrian revolution in 2011 originated, has been under regime control since 2018, but some areas still remain under the influence of rebel groups.