...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
holy warrior group in the eastern province of Diyala, a police front man said.
"A joint force of Diyala police and army launched a counter-terrorism operation in al-Nada district in the eastern part of the province, destroying five IS hideouts," the Iraqi Ayn Al Iraq news website quoted Diyala police front man Col. Ghaleb al-Attia as saying in a press statement.
The operation was launched based on intelligence information to track down Islamic State gunnies in the province, the front man added.