...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....
group's leader in the country's northwest saying it would have otherwise grabbed credit.
The security arm of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, or HTS, made the announcement Friday night, a day after IS blamed the Syrian hard boy group for the death of its little-known leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, who headed the murderous Moslem organization since November.
"We categorically deny this claim," the front man of HTS, General Security Diaa al-Omar, said in a terse statement.
He said HTS would continue to fight "evil acts" by IS in rebel-held parts of Syria, adding that had his group been behind al-Qurayshi's death "we would have given the good news to Moslems and announced it directly."
Fair enough.
Al-Qurayshi was the fourth IS leader to be killed since the group was founded by Iraqi holy warrior Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and declared a caliphate in large parts of Syria and Iraq in June 2014 before its defeat years later.Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi was named the group's new leader on Thursday.
The Islamic State group broke away from al-Qaeda a decade ago and attracted supporters from around the world. Despite its defeat in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, IS turbans still carry out deadly attacks in both countries and elsewhere.
Since IS broke away from al-Qaeda, both groups fought deadly battles over the past years in northern Syria.
Each doing their bit to clean out the shallow end of the gene pool...
In April, 
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...said
Ah hah!
An earlier An Nahar article adds this useful tidbit:
Al-Qurayshi is not the real name of the IS leaders but comes from Quraish, the name of the tribe to which Islam's Prophet Muhammad belonged. IS claims its leaders hail from this tribe and "al-Qurayshi" serves as part of their nom de guerre. An earlier An Nahar article adds this useful tidbit:
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