...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) attacks in disputed territories in the first 11 months of 2021, an official from the Peshmerga ministry told Rudaw on Monday, following an increase in the bully boy group’s activities.
In the first 11 months of the year "ISIS turbans conducted 229 attacks in disputed territories, as result of which 356 people were martyred, 480 were maimed and 33 were kidnapped," the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga Jabar Yawar told Rudaw.
The terror group has killed 22 Peshmerga fighters since November 27.
Iraqi and Kurdish officials held security meetings and launched joint military operations against the bully boy group.
The Iraqi counter-terror forces have conducted over 300 operations against ISIS, according to data provided to Rudaw English by Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Services (ICTS) Sabah al-Numan.
The Iraqi army and the Peshmerga started talks in July to form two joint brigades to counter ISIS remnants but efforts to form these brigades have so far stalled.
However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
Numan told Rudaw English the joint-brigades will be established within the first two months of the new year.
Multiple ISIS suspects have recently been arrested across Iraq.
Iraqi forces on Thursday arrested five ISIS members including a health worker that has admitted to treating ill and maimed members of the bully boy group.
Kurdish security forces detained a group affiliated with ISIS in Erbil on December 18. Two ISIS arms smugglers were also captured in Erbil earlier in the month.
In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 12 attacks in Iraq from December 16 to December 22, killing and injuring 26 people.