...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....
bad boyz were potted Sunday in a military operation in Nineveh province, the Security Media Cell said in a press statement.
The operation was carried out by a joint force of the Nineveh Operations Command and Tribal Mobilization Forces, the statement read.
The troops also destroyed 23 terrorist hotbeds of Islamic State and four explosive charges, it added.
The Iraqi army launched on Saturday the second phase of a military operation to pursue Islamic State (IS) gunnies in northern the country.
The "Will of Victory" operation aims to attain security and stability in the desert area between Nineveh, Salahuddin and Anbar provinces on the Iraqi-Syrian border, in addition to preventing IS remains from sneaking into that region or even using it as a stronghold for their terrorist acts.