...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) was killed and two others were maimed during a recent operation against the group in Iraq, announced the US Central Command (CENTCOM) late Monday.
CENTCOM, which oversees US troops in the Middle East, said they and Iraqi forces from December 30 to Monday "conducted multiple strikes in the Hamrin mountains of Iraq, targeting known ISIS locations," adding that "the operations served to disrupt and degrade ISIS’ ability to plan, organize, and conduct attacks against civilians in the region, as well as U.S. citizens, allies, and partners throughout the region and beyond."
It also said that "ISIS fighters engaged Coalition forces on several occasions, resulting in the employment of Coalition air strikes, using F-16s, F-15s, and A-10s. The A-10s tasked to support ground forces in the area were successful in eliminating the ISIS fighters within a cave."
The festivities resulted in casualties among coalition forces.
"One Coalition member was killed and two were maimed from two different nations," CENTCOM said, adding that no US personnel was injured.
The US forces also provided support to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last week in anti-ISIS operations in eastern Syria, resulting in the arrest of an ISIS leader, according to CENTCOM.