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Iraq
Air raids on ISIS in Shingal after militants begin bombing homes
2015-05-04
[Rudaw] SHINGAL, djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
 Province -- US-led warplanes pounded 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....
 (ISIS) in Shingal Sunday evening, reportedly inflicting heavy casualties, after the Death Eaters began blowing up abandoned homes in the Yezidi-dominated town.

"Coalition warplanes conducted five Arclight airstrikes on ISIS positions in the Shingal neighborhoods of Qadisiya, Qasri Smail Bag, and the town of Nasri in Shingal," said Brig. Issa Zeway, commander of Peshmerga forces in the area.

"The Arclight airstrikes followed our information to coalition warplanes about ISIS maneuvers in these areas," he added. He said the raids had inflicted "heavy casualties" on the bully boys.

On Saturday, three separate ISIS convoys were destroyed by coalition Arclight airstrikes in the Shingal area, reportedly killing 24 hard boys, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw.

Sunday's raids came after the jihadis began using explosives to destroy homes in Yezidi-dominated Shingal.

"Daesh has bombed 16 civilian homes inside Shingal," Zeway said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.

"It seems Daesh holy warriors in Shingal are now disappointed in ground battle with Peshmerga, so they began exploding Kurdish Yezidis' homes," the commander added.

Zeway said earlier that there were no inhabitants inside the homes. Shingal residents fled the region last year when the Death Eaters made a surprise attack on Kurdish Yezidis in the area.

In recent months, Shingal has been struggling to recover from a devastating ISIS attack last year that unleashed a spree of killings, rapes and kidnappings against the area's predominantly Kurdish Yezidi population.

The region is still marred by sporadic assaults from ISIS against Peshmerga and other Kurdish forces protecting the area. The US-led coalition is carrying out frequent Arclight airstrikes in the Shingal area, targeting ISIS bases and troops.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  "It seems Daesh holy warriors in Shingal are now disappointed in ground battle with Peshmerga, so they began exploding Kurdish Yezidis' homes"

Sounds more like clearing for fields of fire.
Posted by: Pappy   2015-05-04 17:26  

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