...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) hideout in Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
a member of the Kurdish security forces (Asayish) was killed during a sweeping operation in the disputed province on Thursday.
"After the bombardment, a force from the Sulaimani Asayish operations, in cooperation with Iraqi forces, went to the site of the bombing for a sweep [operation], leading to festivities that resulted in the martyrdom of one of our members," a senior Asayish official told Rudaw.
During festivities with ISIS in Kirkuk’s Shwan district, Mohammed Zhalla Mamlaha, an Asayish member, was killed. He was from the district of Chamchamal in Sulaimani province.
Earlier in the day, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) announced
...KABOOM!...
s targeting four suspected ISIS members of the group during a joint operation with Sulaimani’s Asayish.
"The strike targeted an important hideout belonging to the terrorists, which was a cave housing an ISIS cell consisting of four members in areas of mutual concern between the provinces of Kirkuk and Sulaimani," the JOC said in a statement.
The strike took place after the suspected faceless myrmidons infiltrated Kirkuk’s Shwan area, according to a statement from the General Directorate of Operations of the Kurdistan Region's security forces.
The Sulaimani-based Asayish said the faceless myrmidons were killed during the operation; however, pockets of the murderous Moslems remain in the area.
The strike in territories disputed between the federal Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is the latest in an ongoing effort to rid the country of ISIS cells, in areas where a security vacuum allows them to operate.
A joint operation between Iraqi counterterrorism forces and Asayish in Sulaimani on Thursday, captured a man in the province who was charged with being an ISIS leader in Iraq's western Anbar province; concurrently, Iraqi counterterrorism units apprehended another ISIS turban in Anbar.
On Tuesday, an Iraqi airstrike killed four suspected ISIS members including an "important leader," in Kirkuk province.
In August, a joint operation by the Iraqi army and US forces in the western Anbar province killed 16 suspected ISIS turbans, and the US military later said that the operation killed four ISIS leaders.
Earlier this month, the Iraqi army announced that more than 100 ISIS members have been killed since the beginning of the year.