...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
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(ISIS) bully boyz in Deir ez-Zor. A second force member died in an accident.
"Two of our fighters were martyred. One was killed while confronting an attack by ISIS terrorist cells in the Deir ez-Zor countryside. An bomb detonated in his vehicle as he pursued remnants of the terrorist group," the SDF said in a statement.
A second member of the force was killed "in a military accident while performing his duties at his post," it said.
Although ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, it has sought to regain ground by taking advantage of the instability that followed the fall of longtime dictator Bashir
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The Scourge of Hama...
’s regime in December.
The SDF and other security forces in northeast Syria (Rojava) remain actively engaged in counterterrorism operations to prevent the group’s reemergence.
The Kurdish-led Internal Security Forces (Asayish) announced earlier this week it captured two ISIS operatives in Deir ez-Zor, in an operation supported by the US-led global coalition.