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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon May 23, 2022 6:31 pm

ISIS killed across Iraqi provinces ​

Iraqi security forces on Sunday announced the killing of several alleged Islamic State (ISIS) members, including two suicide bombers in Salahaddin province. Other suspects of the terror group were also arrested across several Iraqi provinces

Iraqi airstrikes targeted ISIS positions north of Lake Tharthar, killing three alleged ISIS members, Iraqi Security Media Cell said.

The death toll of ISIS militants climbed to five after the Iraqi forces clashed with two militants wearing explosive vests in the same area, leading to the killing of both ISIS suspects, it added.

"The force found a very large tunnel containing large numbers of explosive devices ... in addition to finding a house used by ISIS terrorist gangs to hide the explosive devices," said the cell. A vehicle containing explosive devices and weapons was also discovered on the scene.

ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.

The security forces also announced the arrest of several suspected ISIS members, including a leader of the terror group, in four Iraqi provinces.

Six militants were arrested in Kirkuk province "including an ISIS terrorist leader who entered the province with a fake identity, and he is one of those responsible for blowing up oil pipelines," according to the cell.

Additionally, more than a dozen ISIS affiliates were detained in the provinces of Nineveh, Anbar, and Diyala.

Iraqi forces often target members of the terror group.

Iraqi warplanes on Monday killed seven ISIS suspects after an airstrike hit their location in the Makhmour mountains in Erbil.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in clashes with the terror group in Salahaddin on Tuesday.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 12 attacks in Iraq from May 11 to May 19, killing and injuring 26 people.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:47 pm

Ex-teacher guilty to ISIS connection

WASHINGTON, United States - A former US schoolteacher who became a high-ranking Islamic State official and organized an all-female IS military battalion, pleaded guilty Tuesday to supporting a foreign terrorist group, the Justice Department said

Kansas-born Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, admitted to engaging in "terrorism-related activities" in Syria, Libya, and Iraq between 2011 and 2019.

"Fluke-Ekren ultimately served as the leader and organizer of an ISIS military battalion, known as the Khatiba Nusaybah, where she trained women on the use of automatic firing AK-47 assault rifles, grenades, and suicide belts," the department said.

"Over 100 women and young girls, including as young as 10 or 11-years-old, received military training from Fluke-Ekren in Syria on behalf of ISIS (Islamic State)."

Her husband was a member of the extremist Ansar al-Sharia group which attacked the US mission in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, and then became a leader of an Islamic State sniper group in Syria.

The department said the two were involved in extremist activities across the Middle East after they left the United States in 2011.

While in Syria, the department said, she spoke of desires to bomb a US shopping mall or university.

In 2016-17 she became leader of the all-woman Khatiba Nusaybah battalion, which undertook physical, medical and weapons training to support Islamic state.

Fluke-Ekren was apprehended in Syria sometime after the early-2019 territorial defeat of Islamic State, and flown to the United States on January 28.

The court record indicates that her attorneys and the Justice Department spent months negotiating her guilty plea on a single count, supporting a foreign terrorist organization, a charge which brings up to 20 years in prison.

She is scheduled to be sentenced on October 25.

- Born on Kansas farm -

Fluke-Ekren was apparently notorious even inside Islamic State, where she carried the nom de guerre Umm Mohammed al-Amriki.

On a ten-point scale of radicalization, a person who knew her in Syria called her "an 11 or a 12."

She was born on a Kansas farm and grew up Christian in Topeka, where she was known as a bright student.

"Never would any of us who knew her back then ever thought she would end up as she has today," Larry Miller, a retired science teacher, told the Topeka Capital-Journal in January.

She married a man named Fluke and had two children. They split and she married Volkan Ekren, a Muslim with whom she had at least three more children.

As Fluke-Ekren, she studied at the University of Kansas and then earned a master's degree in teaching from a college in Indiana.

In a 2004 article in the Lawrence Journal-World, Fluke-Ekren is shown wearing a headscarf while home-schooling her two eldest children, which included regular Arabic lessons.

The family moved to Egypt in 2008. Her personal blog showed the family celebrating birthdays, taking a cruise on the Nile and visiting the Pyramids.

- Joining extremists -

But the Justice department suggested her husband was already involved with radical Islamists at that time.

They moved to Libya in 2011, the year of the Arab Spring uprisings and the beginning of the Libyan civil war.

They were in Benghazi in September 2012 when Ansar al-Sharia attacked the US mission and CIA office there, killing the US ambassador and three others.

Her husband took documents and an electronic device from the fire-charred compound and Fluke-Ekren helped him analyze the contents for the group, the Justice Department said.

They then moved to Turkey and Syria, where they became deeply involved with Islamic State, even living in the group's Mosul, Iraq stronghold for a time.

She told a person she met that wanted to attack a shopping mall back home, and "spoke about learning how to make bombs and explosives," the department said.

"Fluke-Ekren further said that she considered any attack that did not kill a large number of individuals to be a waste of resources," it said.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Jun 08, 2022 7:59 pm

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As long as these vile subhuman creatures are allowed to wander around freely, in total anonymity, they are not only free to frighten and radicalise other inhabitants of these camps but they are getting away with murder

These creatures are not sweet little ladies from the local sewing circle, they are all supporters of ISIS, some by supporting murderous husbands and some by taking active rolls in the killing, torture and enslavement of innocent civilians

There is nothing in the Quran which tells females they must hide their faces and cover themselves from head to toe

The only reason for total face and body coverage is to provide them with the anonymity to threaten and radicalise others

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:47 am

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ISIS terror in Hol camp

In the Hol camp in northern Syria, ISIS jihadists attacked workers who were installing lighting equipment. There was an exchange of fire between the security forces and ISIS members

ISIS is trying to maintain its control over large parts of the al-Hol internment and refugee camp near Hesekê in north-eastern Syria. The expansion of the infrastructure in the camp, which houses thousands of families of ISIS jihadists, was used by ISIS as an opportunity for another attack.

Employees of a company that was set to install lighting systems in the camp were threatened and robbed by ISIS members in sector 5 of the camp. Among other things, their mobile phones were stolen. According to ANHA, a battle ensued between the security forces in the camp and members of ISIS. The workers were then brought to safety.

At least 25 murders in six months

The expansion of the camp with lighting systems is a thorn in the side of ISIS, as its "morality police", Hisbah, and other groups carry out their terror mainly under the cover of darkness. Thus, "ISIS courts" have unofficial power in the camp, ordering executions and mutilations. Only on Monday, another woman's body was discovered in the camp. The body, discovered by internal security forces in the sewers, was identified as that of a woman from Deir ez-Zor. Earlier, on 30 May, security forces had found a decapitated woman's body in an open area.

Since the beginning of 2022, 25 murders have been registered in the Hol Camp, and more people have been injured in attempted murders. However, many murders remain undetected, as people simply disappear and their bodies are buried under tents or in other places.

Secret ISIS capital

The Hol Camp currently hosts 29,142 refugees from Iraq, 18,903 from Syria and 8,109 relatives of ISIS jihadists. The ISIS terror in the camp is possible in part because the countries of origin of many of the jihadists do not take responsibility for their nationals. With the Turkish attacks, the murders in the camp have also increased. Hol is considered the most dangerous refugee camp in the world.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Jul 02, 2022 12:10 am

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ISIS war courses for children

ISIS women in the Hol refugee camp organize war courses for children to prepare a new generation of radical fighters that would threaten the world and the region

New footage provided by sources inside the Hol refugee camp in the city of Hesekê shows that children in the camp are trained in war courses.

The footage was shot in the Muhajirat section of the camp, where members of foreign jihadists of the ISIS group are held. Two ISIS women are seen to speak Russian to each other in a tent covered with the ISIS flag.

Children dressed in black gather around a table full of food and listen to the women in question. According to security sources, ISIS women offer a war training consisting of 5 steps.

Security sources say that the women in the Hol Camp have direct links to the ISIS “Leadership Committee” in the occupied areas.

Political parties and social organizations in North and East Syria keep warning that the children of ISIS members in the Hol camp are raised with ideas promoting violence.
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Jul 11, 2022 2:42 am

150 operations against ISIS in 2022

Iraq’s counter-terrorism service (CTS) has conducted over 150 operations against the Islamic State (ISIS) since the start of the year, said the spokesperson for the CTS on Sunday, stressing that “preemptive operations” continues in areas suspected of sheltering remnants of the militant group

“The service has conducted over 154 operations outside the cities,” Sabah al-Numan spokesperson for the Iraqi CTS told state media on Sunday, adding that “all city centers and suburbs are safe from ISIS terrorism.”

On the fifth anniversary of the liberation of Mosul, Numan lauded the “prominent” role of the CTS in the operations that led to regaining the city from ISIS rule, stating that all the areas that have been liberated now enjoy security and stability, and that operations will continue to target areas where the militants are believed to be hiding.

ISIS seized control of swathes of Iraqi land in 2014, including Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the capital of Nineveh province, where the group declared its so-called caliphate. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but it continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 13 attacks in Iraq from June 30 to July 6, killing and injuring 28 people.

The Iraqi CTS and the Kurdistan Region's counter-terrorism units have cooperated on more than 10 operations since the start of 2022, resulting in the arrest of at least 21 “high-profile” terrorists, Numan told Rudaw’s Rozhan Abubakir in June.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Jul 20, 2022 2:05 am

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Anti-ISIS operation in Makhmour

Iraq on Tuesday launched a fresh phase of an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) operation dubbed Solid Will in cooperation with Peshmerga forces, targeting remnants of the group in an infamous region near Makhmour town, the country's Security Media Cell announced

The Iraqi army and Peshmerga forces launched the fourth phase of Operation Solid Will "to pursue remnants of ISIS terrorist gangs in the Qarachogh Mountains," the cell said.

Units of the Peshmerga participating in the operation include the Zeravani and counter-terrorism forces and are supported by the Iraqi air force and a reinforcement of tanks.

Mount Qarachogh and its vicinity are located in a security vacuum between Baghdad and Erbil, stretching across several provinces including Kirkuk, Salahaddin, and Diyala, where locals live in constant fear of ISIS attacks.

Iraqi army and Peshmerga have formed joint brigades to fight ISIS in the disputed territories, but government formation turmoil has prevented their work from materializing.

Kurdish security forces on Thursday with coalition support announced they had taken down four members of ISIS who were behind a deadly attack that killed ten Peshmerga and three civilians in villages at the foothill of Mount Qarachogh.

The latest phase of Operation Solid Will comes three months after Iraq conducted another phase in its western provinces under the supervision of the Joint Operations Command and with the participation of numerous forces including the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).

A Peshmerga operation in Mount Qarachogh in May led to the deaths of two ISIS fighters and the destruction of the jihadists' hideouts.

ISIS controlled vast lands in Iraq in 2014, but the jihadists became fully devoid of territorial control in 2017. While the group lacks any territory, it still continues to pose security risks through abductions, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings, especially in the disputed territories.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted 4 attacks in Iraq from July 7 to July 13, killing and injuring 6 people.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:17 am

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Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani on Monday warned of the recent series of Islamic State (ISIS) attacks that killed at least seven and injured over a dozen people across Iraq, saying it rings “alarms of a serious threat” of the terror group.

At least nine people were killed in separate Islamic State attacks in four Iraqi provinces overnight, according to local officials, marking the latest in a spate of offenses by the terror group.

The increase in the terror group’s attacks is “a real threat to the security and stability of Iraq that needs to be stood against seriously,” President Barzani said in a statement.

Two members of Saraya al-Salam militia were killed in an ISIS attack in Samarra while two civilians were killed in Baghdad’s Tarmiyah which remains vulnerable to the terror group’s attacks, Security Media Cell said in a tweet.

A member of the Iraqi federal police was shot dead in Kirkuk, police spokesperson Amer Muheidin told Rudaw’s Hiwa Husamaddin. The people were also wounded.

The terror group also launched an attack in Diyala, killing four people and injuring 11 others, Diyala police spokesperson Nihad Ahmed said.

ISIS controlled vast lands in Iraq in 2014, but the terror group became fully devoid of territorial control in 2017. While the group lacks any territory, it still continues to pose security risks through abductions, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings.

The Iraqi army and Peshmerga forces on Tuesday launched a new joint operation to eliminate ISIS sleeper cells in Makhmour's Mount Qarachogh, an area infamous for ISIS activity.

On Thursday, an attack by six ISIS militants left five civilians and three others wounded in Diyala, and all of the victims were from the same family.

In its propaganda magazine on Thursday, ISIS claimed to have conducted three attacks in Iraq from July 14 to July 20, killing and injuring 13 people.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Jul 29, 2022 5:57 pm

Iraqi airstrikes kill 8 ISIS

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Eight suspected ISIS members were killed by twin Iraqi airstrikes in the west of Nineveh province on Thursday, according to a statement from the army’s media

The airstrikes targeted a “cave” in the province’s Adiya Mountain range based on intelligence provided by the security forces, the Security Media Cell announced.

The hideout was completely destroyed, the statement added.

An Iraqi Army unit visited the site to assess the damage, and they found the strikes yielded “positive results”.

The Iraqi Air Force regularly targets ISIS remnants and their hideouts in remote areas of the country.

Even though the group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017, it still poses a threat. At least seven people were killed by a recent series of attacks across a number of provinces.

In the face of the increasing attacks by the group, cooperation between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces is urgently needed, particularly in the disputed territories, the Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani warned in a statement.

He called for continued coalition support to Iraqi and Kurdish forces to combat the group.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Aug 22, 2022 10:01 am

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Coalition forces assist Peshmerga

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The international Coalition to Defeat ISIS is set to help the Kurdistan Region Peshmerga forces in creating two new military contingents as part of the ministry’s reform scheme

The subject was discussed during a meeting between the Peshmerga Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Issa Ozeir and Colonel Soria, the head of the coalition’s advisory team in the Kurdistan Region.

The international forces will provide the “logistics and advise” in the creation of the two Peshmerga units, the head of the ministry’s media department, confirmed to Kurdistan 24 on Monday.

As part of the ministry’s reform program, the coalition advisors have been assisting the Kurdish forces to unify their command and control as well as strengthening the capabilities of the Region’s armed forces.

The two military officials discussed the cooperation between the Peshmerga and Iraqi Army as well, according to a statement from the Kurdish official’s media.

They described joint operations between the Kurdish and Iraqi officials as “important”.

Erbil and Baghdad have held numerous meetings to enhance better security cooperation, particularly in the disputed territories.

Sweeping operations against the remnants of ISIS in the remote areas of Mosul and Kirkuk have been conducted multiple times between the forces.

In late 2021, the Coalition concluded its combatant role, shifting completely to a “advise, assist, and enable” role.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Aug 26, 2022 1:54 am

Anti-ISIS operation in al-Hol

Internal security forces (Asayish) on Thursday launched a new security operation targeting cells of the Islamic State (ISIS) in the notorious al-Hol camp in northeast Syria’s (Western Kurdistan/ Rojava Kurdistani) Hasaka province, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced

The operation is conducted by Asayish with support from the SDF and the global coalition, and aims “to hunt down ISIS terrorist cells in the al-Hol camp, drain the ISIS enabling environment, and save the residents from ISIS terrorism.”

According to the statement, ISIS has carried out 43 attacks in the squalid facility this year, killing 44 residents including women and children. The camp has also witnessed over a dozen attempts of abduction, arson, and destruction of relief supplies.

The Asayish further added that overrunning al-Hol camp was the next target for ISIS after the failed al-Sina’a prison siege in January.

The notorious al-Hol camp continues to pose a serious security risk and violence in the camp continues to regularly lead to murders.

Located in Hasaka province, al-Hol has infamously been branded a breeding ground for terrorism, with Kurdish and Iraqi authorities describing the sprawling facility as a “ticking time bomb,” saying the situation in the camp is “very dangerous” with ISIS sleeper cells active in the camp.

Iraqi nationals make up the bulk of the camp’s population.

“The lack of a clear international plan to solve this problem, the non-repatriation of foreign nationals by their countries, and the lack of effective and adequate support to our forces and the AANES [Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria] have aggravated the threat of the camp,” the statement added, holding the international community responsible and reiterating previous calls for foreign countries to repatriate their ISIS-linked nationals from the facility.

The SDF arrested droves of ISIS fighters and their families when they overran ISIS’s last stronghold in Syria in March 2019. Many of these people were taken to al-Hol, which is now home to around 56,000 people - mostly women and children of different nationalities.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Aug 28, 2022 12:43 am

Asayish clears 33 tents

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Asayish announced on Saturday that they cleared out 33 tents in Syria’s al-Hol camp on the third day of the operation “Security and Humanity” against ISIS sleeper cells in the camp

    #Asayish cleared 33 tents in #Al_Hol used as #ISIS indoctrination centers and extrajudicial courts that target inhabitants for failure to adhere to their hateful ideology. Ops like this aim to disrupt, degrade and dissolve #ISIS support networks and ensure the #security of #Syria https://t.co/LgCfduLtjC
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The official twitter account of Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant (SOJTF) in a tweet said that the tents were used by ISIS as “indoctrination centers and extrajudicial courts that target inhabitants for failure to adhere to their hateful ideology.”

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a press release also confirmed the 33 tents were used as “courts for imposing punishments on people who do not abide by ISIS extremist ideology.”

On August 25, the Asayish launched an anti-ISIS operation with support of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the US-led coalition in al-Hol camp. So far, 27 ISIS suspects were arrested.

The SOJTF said the operation “aims to disrupt, degrade and dissolve ISIS support networks and ensure the security of Syria.”

The al-Hol camp hosts at least 56,000 people (mostly ISIS families), the majority of whom are Syrians and Iraqis. But it also hosts foreign third country nationals.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Aug 31, 2022 12:17 am

Western Kurdistan arrest ISIS suspects

Kurdish security forces in Western Kurdistan (Rojava Kurdistani) announced the arrest of an additional 23 suspects of the Islamic State (ISIS) group during an ongoing security operation in the infamous al-Hol camp to combat remnants of the terror group

Internal security forces (Asayish) “managed to arrest 23 people suspected of belonging to ISIS, and investigations are continuing with them,” according to a statement from the force.

The recent arrests bring the total number of ISIS suspects arrested by the fifth day of the operation to 110.

Kurdish security forces launched Operation Security and Humanity in cooperation with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the global coalition on Thursday in an attempt to counter ISIS sleeper cells in al-Hol camp.

Asayish also managed to dismantle 23 tents used by the terror group as courts and places to spread their ideology.

The camp, located in Hasaka province, is infamously known as a breeding ground for ISIS. Kurdish and Iraqi authorities have described the sprawling facility as a “ticking time bomb,” saying the situation in the camp is “very dangerous” with ISIS sleeper cells active.

The SDF arrested droves of ISIS fighters and their families after overrunning ISIS’s last stronghold in Syria in 2019. Many of these people were taken to al-Hol, which is now home to around 56,000 people – mostly women and children of different nationalities.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Aug 31, 2022 11:16 pm

US official visit al-Hol camp

The deputy commander of the global coalition against the Islamic State (ISIS) and a senior US official on Wednesday paid rare visits to the notorious al-Hol camp in Hasaka, northeast Syria (Rojava) to assess the situation of the camp, according to Kurdish forces

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a statement on Wednesday that its senior commander, Mahmoud Barkhadan, separately received UK Brigadier Gen. Karl Harris, deputy to the General Commander of the Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) and Nikolas Granger, the High Representative of the US in Western Kurdistan.

The meetings came after Harris and Granger visited al-Hol camp which holds about 56,000 people - mostly women and children affiliated to ISIS fighters. The Kurdish Internal Security Forces (Asayish) has conducted new raids in the camp to arrest ISIS suspects. The Asayish has announced the arrest of dozens of ISIS suspects in the last six days days, including 26 on Wednesday.

The coalition commander and the US official “assessed the current and expected threats the camp poses in light of the international inaction and lack of response to the AANES’ calls to resolve this case by urging countries to repatriate their nationals and providing adequate support to the AANES,” read the SDF statement, referring to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (NES/AANES), known by Kurds as Rojava administration.

The Kurdish and US officials have repeatedly called on countries to repatriate their nationals but only a few have responded positively.

Barkhadan separately briefed both commanders and representatives about the condition of prisons holding ISIS suspects as well as their attempted prison breaks.

The US-led Coalition's Special Operations Joint Task Force-Levant (SOJTF-Levant) on Wednesday commended in a tweet the Asayish for the raids at the al-Hol camp.

“This mission continues to strengthen #security for camp inhabitants while degrading, denying, and dissolving #ISIS networks both within the camp and throughout the region,” read the tweet.

The SDF is the main ally of the global coalition on the ground in Rojava, receiving military support and training from it.

    Hêzên me operasyona mirovî û ewlehiyê ya di qonaxa duyemîn de ji bo aramkirina kampa Holê didomînin pic.twitter.com/p874Gx2Pxn
    — Asayîşa Bakûr û Rojhilatê Sûriyê (@Asayish_Asayis) August 30, 2022
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Re: ISIS growing stronger and more organised in Middle East

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Sep 06, 2022 6:15 pm

ISIS kidnaps Kurdish shepherd

Kurdish shepherd was kidnapped by suspected Islamic State (ISIS) members in northern Diyala province on Monday, a local security official told Rudaw, with the site of the kidnapping situated in a security gap

Wali Rostam, a village resident and the abductee’s cousin, said that this is the third kidnapping the village since 2019 and that they previously had to pay ISIS militants a fee of $57,500 in exchange for an abductee’s freedom.

Rostam added that they expect ISIS fighters to contact them in the evening to demand a price for the shepherd’s release.

An ISIS attack on a group of shepherds in Kirkuk late last month killed one civilian and injured another.

Earlier in August, five Iraqi soldiers were killed in an ISIS attack in Diyala.

ISIS seized control of large swathes of Iraqi territory in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.

The militants have taken shelter in a security vacuum in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad, stretching across several provinces including Kirkuk, Salahaddin, and Diyala.

Iraqi army and Peshmerga have formed joint brigades to fight ISIS in the disputed territories, but government formation turmoil has prevented their work from materializing.

Although joint brigades have not been formed, Kurdish and Iraqi forces launch operations targeting ISIS remnants in the disputed areas. The forces launched the seventh phase of an expansive operation dubbed Solid Will on Saturday.

Peshmerga officials have blamed the deadly ISIS attacks on a lack of coordination between them and Iraqi forces in the disputed areas.

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