...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) claimed on Monday responsibility for targeting fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town in eastern Deir ez-Zor, east Syria.
ISIS-affiliated Amaq news agency published a statement saying the group’s button men targeted SDF fighters in the town of Abu Hardub in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
The targeting was carried out by pistols and resulted in killing a fighter and injuring the other, the statement said.
On February 22, ISIS grabbed credit for attacking an SDF checkpoint near the town of Daman, in al-Suwar district, 70 km north of Deir ez-Zor.