...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) in Diyala governorate east Iraq.
"ISIS criminals attempt to go back once again to their desperate methods in targeting the innocent safe citizens after their failure in confronting our military and security forces," the Operation Center said in a statement.
ISIS committed a terrorist attack on the village of al-Hawash in al-Muqdadiya area, Diyala governorate, killing 11 people and wounding a number of unarmed civilians, the statement added.
The Joint Operation Center intensified pursuing ISIS fighters inside Iraq and said the battle against ISIS is "ongoing"
The Iraqi forces promised most severe punishment to the perpetrators to seek justice for the victims.