...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....
jihadists, including big shots, from Syria, an Iraqi mayor said seemingly under an agreement to hand over a total of 502 fighters.
"The Syrian side has handed the Jazeerah Operations Command a total of 100 Islamic State elements, who were arrested by the Syrian army near the borderline with Iraq," the independent news website of Almaalomah quoted the mayor of Iraqi border town al-Qaim, Ahmed al-Mahallawi, as saying on Tuesday.
"The turbans were moved to the Ain Assad airbase in al-Baghdadi district, west of Anbar, for interrogation and judicial action," al-Mahalawi said, adding that there were big shots among the arrestees.
Around 800 of foreign jihadist fighters who joined Islamic State, including many Iraqis, are being held in Syria by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, the group said. More than 2,000 family members are also in camps, with dozens more arriving each day.
The krazed killer group still poses a threat in Iraq and some western officials believe that the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may still be hiding there.