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Iraq

Kurdish forces capture 'major' ISIS militant in Diyala

2020-02-05

[Rudaw] Kurdish security forces announced on Monday the capture of a major Islamic State

...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) hard boy near Kifri in the Kurdistan Region’s Garmiyan area.

"Yesterday our Asayesh (security) forces near Nawjul managed to capture a major terrorist who is known as Abu Haris al-Diyala," Osman Abdulkarim, spokesperson of Garmiyan Asayesh told news hounds in a presser on Monday.

Nawjul sub-district is controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) but lies in Diyala province, disputed between Baghdad and Erbil.

"Abu Haris has taken part in many battles along ISIS ranks in Kirkuk including attacks against Peshmerga forces and Hashd al-Shaabi near North Oil Company," he said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

"This terrorist has taken part in special training missions with ISIS to carry out acts of terror against coalition forces and Peshmerga in Kirkuk province," Abdulkarim added.

The runaway comes from a family with several links to the terrorist group, with two brothers killed as fighters and another ‐ said to be an ISIS emir- arrested in Qara Tapa several months ago.

Golly. At the rate they’re going, the entire family line will soon be wiped out.

Disputed areas of Diyala province as well as southernmost areas of Garmiyan region have often been the target of ISIS hard boys' hit-and-run activities.

The group's ~~bandidos~~ turbans have recently turned to kidnapping activities.

On Friday and Saturday nights ISIS suspects kidnapped nine civilians, including two Kurds and seven Arabs near Tuz Khurmatu and Qaratapa, both in Diyala province.

The ongoing dispute over territorial control and lack of communication between Kurdish and Iraqi security forces has led to a security vacuum in contested territories along the border of the Kurdistan Region.

James Jeffrey, the US special envoy to the anti-Islamic State (ISIS) coalition announced on January 30 that ISIS is making a comeback.

"We are seeing ISIS come back as an insurgency, as a terrorist operation, with some 14- to 18,000 forces of Evil between Syria and Iraq," Jeffery warned. "ISIS considers both countries ‐ as they have always done- as a single front."

Jeffery said that they were working with the Iraqi government and Syrian local authorities to "combat this scourge."

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