[IsraelTimes] Airstrike comes day after four US soldiers killed in suicide kaboom, underlining jihadist group’s continued presence despite looming troop pullout.The US-led coalition fighting 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group destroyed a command center housed in a Syrian mosque on Thursday, officials said.
Coalition aircraft "destroyed an ISIS command and control facility in a mosque in Safafiyah," a coalition statement read, using an alternate acronym for IS.
"ISIS continues to violate Law of Armed Conflict and misuse protected structures like hospitals and mosques, which cause a facility to lose its protected status," the statement added.
IS holdouts in Syria are mainly in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.