...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) suspects were arrested in the northern province of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (ICTS) announced on Sunday, adding that they have located and confiscated a weapons depot in a separate operation in the province.
Citing reliance on "accurate intelligence and continuous surveillance," the ICTS said the two ISIS "remnants" were apprehended in different operations.
It added, "As part of ongoing operations to clear and neutralize the remnants of the defeated ISIS terrorist gangs, our heroes carried out an operation that successfully neutralized an ammunition cache containing mortar shells, rockets, RPG-7 propellants, and hand grenades."
Movements of the ISIS
Earlier in July, ICTS said it had sniped a prominent member of the group in the province. Iraqi F-16 fighter jets carried out
...KABOOM!...
s on ISIS hideouts a day after in the Dibis district of northern Kirkuk.
The counter-terrorism force lost a soldier in the festivities.
Furthermore, a Kurdish farmer in the same area mysteriously disappeared after heading to his cornfield to arrange irrigation.
ISIS seized large swathes of territory in northern and western Iraq in 2014 before being defeated in 2017 after three years of intense fighting. Despite its defeat, the group continues to pose a security threat, particularly in disputed areas between Erbil and Baghdad, spanning the provinces of Diyala, Kirkuk, Nineveh, and Salahaddin.