...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) members, including a big shot, were killed in an Iraqi
...KABOOM!...
on Sunday, the army said, as Baghdad continues to pursue jihadist remnants across the country.
"The Air Falcons carried out a painful strike on a detachment using F-16 aircraft, killing 4 terrorists, including the so-called commander of the Salahaddin sector named al-Bazi," the army’s Security Media Cell said in a statement.
The strike also destroyed "weapons, ammunition, boom belts, communications devices, and various logistic materials," according to the statement.
It is the latest strike in territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) as efforts to rid the country of ISIS cells continue, in areas where a security vacuum allows them to operate.