...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....
(IS) group were killed in an offensive targeting IS positions in a mountainous area in northern Iraq, the Iraqi military said on Wednesday.
Iraqi security forces, backed by US-led coalition and Iraqi aircraft, launched the offensive on March 9 and continued for 14 days in the Makhmour mountain range in southeast of Nineveh's historic provincial capital djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Yahia Rasoul, front man of the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi forces, said in a statement.
The offensive included 312
...KABOOM!...
s that destroyed 120 IS positions and caves used by the bad boy krazed killers, leaving an unknown number of IS forces of Evil killed inside the bombarded sites, while snipers from the security forces spotted and killed 27 of those who escaped the attacked positions, the statement said.
The mountains and vast rugged areas in the north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad have witnessed intense activities of the IS forces of Evil during the past months, despite repeated military operations to hunt them down.
The security situation in Iraq has been improving since Iraqi security forces fully defeated the IS forces of Evil across the country late in 2017.
However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
IS group remnants have since melted in urban areas or deserts and rugged areas, carrying out frequent guerilla attacks against security forces and civilians.