...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) around djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Anadolu Agency reported on March 11.
The Peshmerga is currently training around 1,000 Syriac Christians, including special heavy weapons training, according to sources close to the Kurdish fighters. The 20 militia that are being trained at a camp in Mosul's Tesukuf district also add to this figure.
All ammunition and other needs of the Syriacs is provided by the KRG's Peshmerga Ministry, sources said.
The reports comes at a time when several groups are being training by
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, the U.S. and other nations to fight against ISIL, while Baghdad is preparing ahead of a large operation on Mosul in order to reclaim the key city from the jihadists.
Romeo Nissan Hakkari, the head of the Bet-Nahrain Democratic Party, a Syriac political party in Iraq, told Anadolu Agency that the central Iraqi army is failing to protect the Syriacs adequately so they have demanded support from KRG head
Massoud Barzani... hereditary head of the Kurdish Democratic Party, maybe a little too close to the Medes and the Persians for most people's tastes...
A "Mosul Plato Unit" has been founded under the Peshmerga Ministry, Hakkari said, adding that a number of Christian militias are currently fighting against ISIL around Telsukuf, 30 kilometers southeast of Mosul.
Some 200,000 Christians were displaced after ISIL captured Mosul, he also claimed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde...
Turkish daily Yeni Safak has reported that Iran has started setting up anti-ISIL militias around Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
training Shiite Turkmens.