...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....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist organization along the western border of the country.
According to the Iraqi security forces, their troops targeted the Islamic State hideouts in the southern part of the al-Qa’im District, Wadi Houran, and al-Husseiniyat.
This operation was coordinated with the Popular Mobilization Units’ (Hashd al-Sha’abi) al-Anbar forces, who have been carrying out daily search-and-destroy missions against the Islamic State.
The Iraqi security forces noted that the operation is also being conducted in coordination with the Iraqi Air Force, U.S.-led Coalition, and army.
In the past few days, the Iraqi security forces and Islamic State have clashed in several areas in northwestern Iraq, including the djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
District.
These festivities between the two forces have been intense; however, the Iraqi troops have managed to eliminate several Islamic State hideouts, while also arresting several terrorists.