...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 Thursday responsibility for an attack against a checkpoint of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) at a town in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
ISIS-run Amaq news agency published a statement saying that the organization’s snuffies targeted with machine guns an SDF checkpoint near the entrance of the town of al-Sabha
...After the Libyan Civil War, Sabha grew in importance as a slave auctioning town. However, an investigation by the National Commission for Human Rights in Libya (NCHRL) revealed that while there was illegal slavery, reports were exaggerated, as slave auctions were rare and not made public. This was a great comfort to everyone but the slaves peddled in secret. The city was later seized by forces loyal to the Libyan National Army (LNA) and its leader Khalifa Haftar in January 2019, probably for its collection of MiG-25 aircraft...., 35 km east of Deir ez-Zor city.
It added that the attack killed an SDF fighter and injured two others.
On Tuesday, two soldiers of the Syrian government forces were killed in an infiltration operation by ISIS operatives in the town of al-Mayadin in Deir ez-Zor eastern countryside.