Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ Five 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....
hard boyz were killed in a repelled attack on the Iraqi-Syrian border on Wednesday, paramilitary forces said.
"Popular Mobilization Forces’ (PMF) 1st brigade repelled a fierce attack launched by Islamic State against Tall Safuk area on the Iraqi-Syrian border," the paramilitary forces said in a statement, quoted by Baghdad Today, on Wednesday.
"The two-hour attack left five IS hard boyz killed," the statement read, adding that the PMFs have detonated a vehicle owned by the assailants and seized another.
"The security situation is now under control," the statement concluded.
Earlier in the day, a Diyala-based provincial official warned of the return of Islamic State hard boyz to a border area between Diyala and Salahuddin provinces after the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from there.
Speaking to Alsumaria News, Abdul Khaleq al-Azzawi, a member of Diyala province council, said, "Islamic State hard boyz returned to Mteibijah border area between Salahuddin and Diyala provinces after Iraqi forces withdrew from there on Monday for unknown reasons."
Azzawi wondered how the "Iraqi military could take such a decision of withdrawal with no reasonable justification."
A military operation was launched earlier on Saturday to hunt down remnants of Islamic State at Mteibijah area in Iraq, the Iraqi military said.
Backed by paramilitary al-Hashd al-Shaabi, the troops advanced from three directions to clear Mteibijah area, the media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command said in a brief statement.