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| Iraq |
| Sunni tribesman clash with ISIS in Fallujah |
| 2016-02-20 |
| [Rudaw] Iraqi Sunni rustics and 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) jihadists engaged each other in deadly festivities in and near ISIS-occupied city of Fallujah in Anbar Province on Friday. Iraqi army's allied Sunni rustics fought ISIS's so-called Al-Hisba group, who enforce the groups strict religious laws in the territories the group control. The exiled official responsible for Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... Issa Sayir, told AFP that, "Clashes took place between sons of the Al-Mahamda and Al-Juraisat tribes against the Al-Hisba group." The fighting, he said, took place in Al Jolan to the northwest of the city and expanded to include Al-Askari to the east and the Nazal area in the city-center. Deteriorating conditions, described by Anbar Governor Sohaib al-Rawi as having "reached a state of famine," seem to be resulting in more rustics seeking to oust ISIS from their Sunni Arab-majority province. The US has urged Baghdad to win the trust of the Sunni rustics of Anbar and solicit their help when it comes to uprooting ISIS from Anbar. A policy not unlike the Sahwa, Sunni Awakening, strategy used during the Iraq War against ISIS's al-Qaeda predecessors in that same province. There are an estimated 300 to 400 ISIS members still in Fallujah. |
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