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UN report: Up to 30,000 Islamic State members in Syria, Iraq
See also the Iran Press TV take here.
[IsraelTimes] al-Qaeda's leaders in Iran are working with Ayman al-Zawahri and 'have grown more prominent'; Islamic State transforming from 'proto-state' to covert terrorist network

The Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
murderous Moslem group has up to 30,000 members roughly equally distributed between Syria and Iraq and its global network poses a rising threat ‐ as does al-Qaeda, which is much stronger in places, a United Nations
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-08-14
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=520674