...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) formerly at Taji military base have not been repositioned within Iraq, a senior Iraqi military official said on Monday.
Maj. Gen. Tahsin Khafaji, spokesperson for Iraq’s Joint Operation Command, told state media that the troops at Taji "did not re-station anywhere in Iraq," saying that the US-led coalition is moving in the direction of leaving the country.
"The International Coalition troops are committed to handing back all the bases they have been using to the Iraqi government," Khafaji said, adding that they have established a timeline for the exit. "The handovers come at the request of the Iraqi government, as many bases have completed their training and preparatory tasks, and it became necessary [for the Iraqi government] to receive the bases from coalition forces."
"The US-led coalition will still support Iraqi forces to defeat ISIS in Iraq through
...KABOOM!...
s," Khafaji added, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
The coalition officially departed Taji military base in northern Baghdad on Sunday, making it the eighth base to be transferred to Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) this year.
The military force says successes in the campaign to defeat ISIS and protect personnel amid the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted the withdrawals. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
Taji, as well as other sites with a foreign troop presence, are targets of regular rocket attacks said to be by Iran-linked groups.
US sends military gear to bases in Syria's Hasakah: Watchdog
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The military gear crossed into the Syrian territory through the al-Walid border crossing from the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Saturday, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The shipment is the latest to reach US bases in Hasakah.
On Aug. 7, US armored vehicles entered areas in northeastern Syria and reached US bases in the region.
The United States maintains several bases in areas controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Hasakah.
The Syrian government has repeatedly slammed the US troops present in Syria as forces of occupation, saying they entered the country without the consent of the Syrian government.