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Kurds Push Into Sinjar; Iraqis Battle For Airport
[Ynet] Iraqi Kurdish fighters, backed by US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, pushed their way Sunday into the town of Sinjar, captured by the Sunni murderous Moslems last summer.

Further to the east, near the border with Syria, Iraqi security forces battled the IS murderous Moslems as they tried to retake the strategic military airport of Tal Afar.
Posted by: trailing wife 2014-12-22
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=406728