...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....
group, including senior figures, were killed in a coordinated assault by UAE
...KABOOM!...
s in Somalia's Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
region, local military sources reported Sunday.
The initial strike hit the Xankookib caves near Dhasan, obliterating an ISIS weapons stockpile and multiple vehicles, resulting in several krazed killer deaths, the Puntland Counterterrorism Unit confirmed. This operation was executed in cooperation with Puntland's security forces by the United Arab Emirates.
A subsequent attack targeted ISIS fighters in the Darar-Madoobe area of the Calmiskaad mountains, where additional transport vehicles and weapons were destroyed.
This series of strikes follows US airstrikes earlier this month on February 1, which took out 14 ISIS operatives, among them Ahmed Maeleninine, known for his roles in recruitment, financing, and planning attacks abroad.
The airstrikes underscore the persistent campaign against ISIS in Puntland, with the UAE and U.S. providing air support to local forces maintaining their efforts to dismantle the group's presence in the area.