...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) member was captured in an earlier operation with US-led coalition forces in northeast Syria’s (Rojava) Hasaka province.
Waddah Marwan Taisan, also known as al-Awdah, was captured in Hasaka’s Til Kochar area, near the Iraqi border, in a "special security operation" with US-led coalition forces on May 22, the SDF said in a statement.
"He managed several Telegram accounts affiliated with the terrorist organization, through which he promoted its bully boy ideology and encouraged youth to join its ranks using fabricated narratives and false claims," the statement added.
The operation came amid an escalation of ISIS attacks in the area, particularly targeting Kurdish-led forces and civilians, with the murderous Moslems seeking to exploit a security vacuum sparked by increased instability following the fall of Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
’s regime.
ISIS and its so-called "caliphate" was territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, two years after its defeat in Iraq, but the group has recently sought to regain ground, especially after the fall of the Assad regime.
The SDF, backed by the United States, is the de facto army of Rojava, and has fought to prevent the murderous Moslems from reestablishing a foothold in the shifting security landscape.
Earlier in June, an SDF operation in the notorious al-Hol camp in Hasaka captured another ISIS operative.