[Rudaw] Iraqi federal police on Saturday removed an Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) flag that flew for three days over a public school in a remote village in Kirkuk’s Hawija district, a security source said.
"Three nights ago, the Iraqi flag was removed from the primary school in Ofiya village in Hawija district and was replaced by the ISIS flag," Sabir Mohammed, head of Kirkuk police’s media office, told Rudaw.
A federal police team arrived at the village on Saturday and removed the ISIS flag, returning the Iraqi banner to its place.
According to Mohammed, the village is rural, without surveillance cameras, and lacks access to electricity.
He did not name any suspects.
Hawija district, located in the southwest of Kirkuk province, has been a longtime bastion of insurgency in Iraq and was among the final holdouts of territory held by ISIS when the group was declared defeated in 2017.
ISIS remnants continue to pose security threats through hit-and-run attacks, abductions, and bombings, particularly in rural parts of Iraq disputed by the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Iraq uses its air force to crack down on ISIS sleeper cells, launching frequent Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
s against their suspected hideouts in the provinces of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Salahaddin, Diyala, and Nineveh.
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