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All quiet, for now, as Peshmerga hold the line against ISIS
[Rudaw] A year ago, the furious ISIS attack managed to get as close as 27 km to Erbil with the bully boyz capturing the Gwer district and its surrounding villages. It was a tense time for Kurds and the Kurdish Yezidi under attack to north at Mt Shingal. One year later, however, and Peshmerga commanders are reporting a tense calm as ISIS has been pushed back in many areas surrounding the capital of the Kurdistan region. "There is a difference between the ISIS assault in the beginning and the Peshmrga's current position. At first, we did not have enough skill to fight off the barbaric assaults of ISIS. [But] after a year, the Peshmerga have gained very good experience so that now none of their assaults can win their objectives," a Peshmerga commander told Rudaw. Even so, the fragile stalemate could be shattered at any time and the jihadists still hold the cities of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Hawija to the north and south of Erbil.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-08-06 |
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