...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 was announced territorially defeated in Iraq, the US-led coalition fighting the holy warrior group has said it conducted 47
...KABOOM!...
s on targets over September and October, while Iraq’s counter-terrorism forces and predominantly Shiite militias have reported counter-ISIS gains in operations conducted on Monday.
Nineteen airstrikes were conducted against ISIS targets in Iraq in October, according to a November 13 blurb from the US-led Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR). In September, it conducted 28 airstrikes against ISIS targets in the country, their November 16 release detailed.
The coalition was established in 2014 after ISIS snuffies seized vast swathes of northern Iraq, including Iraq’s second city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, and threatened to march on Baghdad and Erbil. It has conducted some 34,674 strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria between August 2014 and the end of September 2019.
The group was declared defeated by former Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi in December 2017. However,
Switzerland makes more than cheese...
remnants of the group continue to operate, returning to earlier insurgency tactics including ambushes, kidnaps and assassinations.
The US-led coalition has supported the Iraqi army in operations to eradicate these remnants. Operations have focused on the northwest of the country, including areas disputed between Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. As yet, operations have failed to entirely clear their presence, and military bodies worldwide have warned the group is still resurging.
ISIS propaganda outlets have continued to publish claims of attacks it has conducted. According to the group’s weekly al-Naba newspaper, its snuffies conducted more than 161 attacks against security forces and locals in Iraq in September alone.
Iraqi Counter Terrorism Forces (ICTS) conducted an anti-ISIS operation on Makhool Mountain, Saladin province on Monday, destroying six ISIS ’nests’ in the area, according to state media outlet INA .