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EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Commanders Captured In Iraqi-U.S. Operation Talk Of Internal Conflicts Within ISIS, Low Morale, Meetings With Abu Bakr Al-BaghdadiInterviews with the five senior ISIS militants captured by the Iraqi military following a sting operation involving U.S. forces were broadcast by Al-Iraqiya TV on May 9. Saddam Omar Hussein Al-Jamal, a top ISIS commander in Deir Ezzor, recounted how he had pledged allegiance to ISIS and handed over FSA weapons, and said that the organization was in a “bad way,” with internal conflicts and bad decisions. Senior aide Abu Zaid Al-Iraqi, head of the organization’s committee for rewriting the school curricula, recounted his meetings with Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the last of which was in mid-2017.
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-ISIS Jihadists React On Social Media To Paris Stabbing: We Can Still Carry Out Operations In The Hearts Of Your Lands
On May 12, 2018, via its official news agency A’maq, the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for that day’s stabbing attack in Paris.(by memri org).