...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, northeast of Diyala.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi said in a statement that security forces from the 110th brigade, managed to foil an attack launched by the Islamic State terrorist group on the security checkpoints, near al-Saadiyah area, northeast of Diyala Province.
The Islamic State group is trying to cause any security preach in Diyala Province; however, all its attempts failed, the statement added.
Al-Hashd al-Shaabi is a paramilitary militia and an Iraqi state-sponsored umbrella organization composed of some 40 militias that are mostly Shia Moslem groups, but also including Sunni Moslem, Christian, and Yazidi individuals as well.