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| Iraq | |
| Barzani and PYD leader discuss anti-ISIS efforts in Erbil | |
| 2015-09-16 | |
...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.... (ISIS). US Deputy Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS Brett McGurk broke the news of the meeting on twitter. "Important meetings today in Erbil w/President Masud Barzani & PYD's on combined efforts against ISIL," said McGurk on his twitter account. PYD's armed wing the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) have been effectively fighting ISIS across the Kurdish areas of Syria (Rojava), most notably in Kobani and Hasakah. It is believed that most coalition Moslem was in the Kurdistan Region last October where he signed an agreement with other Syrian Kurdish groups in Duhok to coordinate their operations against ISIS. Also in a separate tweet McGurk reported that US Lieutenant General James L. Terry had held a meeting with Barzani on the "ongoing Peshmerga ops [operations] against ISIL terrorists," | |
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