...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) murderous Moslems, forming joint operation centers in disputed areas, but the establishment of a joint brigade will be delayed until after the election. Their combined efforts raise hopes of putting an end to the activities of the murderous Moslem group in Iraq.
The brigades would have been formed by now "if it wasn’t for this year’s October 10 elections," Deputy Peshmerga Minister Sarbast Lazgin said in a presser.
Iraq will hold parliamentary elections on October 10.
Joint operation centers in Khanaqin, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Makhmour, and western Nineveh have been formed and security and military cooperation between the Kurdistan Region and Baghdad is headed down a good path, Lazgin added.