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Father survives suspected ISIS attack that killed three sons in Iraq’s Diyala province
[Rudaw] A father is at death's door after surviving an attack that killed his three sons in Diyala province's Jalawla town on Thursday, a Kurdish official told Rudaw. The attack is suspected to have been carried out by remnant holdouts of the 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....
 group (ISIS).

As Hussein Ismael was on his way to tend to his orchard in the village of Sheikh Baba, he found himself surrounded by button men, Shamal Abdulrahman, head security official for the district of Kolajo told Rudaw.

Neighboring towns in Diyala province, Kolajo is under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government, while Jalawla is disputed between Erbil and Baghdad’s rule.

"The ISIS gunnies ambushed him, engaging in a fight with them. He was maimed," Abdulrahman told Rudaw news hound Halo Mohammed.

Surrounded and maimed, he reached out to his three sons. "They tried to help their father — but they all ended up being killed," Abdulrahman said.

Sheikh Baba is a predominantly inhabited by Sunni Arabs. The villagers are heavily reliant on livestock, groves and orchards. Formerly controlled by ISIS gunnies as part of their self-declared caliphate, Jalawla saw some of the heaviest battles between Kurdish Peshmerga forces in 2014 until its recapture by the end of that year.
Posted by: trailing wife 2020-06-05
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