| Follow up to this story from yesterday. |
...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 has grabbed credit for an attack that killed six soldiers in Syria's southern province of Daraa, the cradle of the 2011 uprising against the government.
The jihadist group said it was responsible for a "suicide operation" Saturday during which one of its fighters sprayed soldiers with machine-gun fire before detonating an "explosive vest."
The claim, posted late Saturday on the Telegram messaging app, was the second by the group this week for an attack in Syria, from which it was largely expelled last year.
IS on Monday said it was responsible for a deadly boom-mobileing in Damascus, where a civilian was killed when a vehicle went
kaboom!in the southern suburb of Qadam.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said six soldiers were killed and several other people maimed in Saturday's attack in Daraa, where peaceful anti-government protests erupted in March 2011.
It said a bomber riding a cycle of violence went
kaboom!at a military checkpoint.
Syrian state news agency SANA also reported a suicide kaboom but said it happened during an "army raid" that targeted "terrorists", a term used by authorities to describe rebels and jihadists. It did not give a corpse count.