...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
’s so-called Islamic Police after huge blasts hit Tal Afar town, west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, a local source from Nineveh was quoted saying.
"Seven powerful blasts occurred in Tal Afar, amid heavy shelling," the source told AlSumaria News on Thursday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source added "the areas of shelling were unknown, however, smoke was seen coming out of the main headquarters of IS Islamic Police. The human losses among the snuffies were unidentified."
On Wednesday, the group reportedly began evacuation of the so-called ’security squares’, which the group established after gaining control on Tal Afar town in 2014, due to frequent shelling on IS headquarters and targeting of rest houses of prominent leaders.
IS member kills own father, a senior leader, in Tal Afar
[Iraq News] A senior 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
official was killed on Thursday by his own son in the group’s stronghold town of Tal Afar, a local source was quoted saying as military operations to retake the area approach.
The source told Alsumaria News that the head of the the Islamic State’s so-called "ores bureau" was killed by his oldest son mysteriously. Militants began intensive search for the runaway killer, the source added.
Abu Ismail, an Iraqi, was killed by his son inside his residence in central Tal Afar, but the method and reason of the killing was not known, according to the source.
The division headed by Abu Ismail had handled antiquities and mineral resources traffick, the source explained.
Islamic State has held Tal Afar since 2014, when the group occupied a third of Iraq to establish a self-styled "caliphate".
The Iraqi government declared victory over IS in djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
last month, while army-backed paramilitary forces isolated Tal Afar both from Mosul and from the Syrian borders. Tal Afar is marked as the next target of anti-IS military action, and the Iraqi Defense Ministry said recently preparations were completed for the invasion of the town.