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Kurdish villagers fend off ISIS attack in Makhmour
[Rudaw] Kurdish villagers in Aliya Rash successfully defended themselves from an Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) attack on the village on Thursday night, with no lives lost on either side.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs posted a video on its social media showing intense shooting in Aliya Rash, near the disputed town of Makhmour.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-21
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=558987