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| IS becoming increasingly violent as it loses ground in Iraq |
| 2016-08-24 |
| [Iraq Sun] As the 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.... group loses ground in Iraq, the The accounts point to the difficulties the hard boy group faces as Iraqi forces, backed by the United States, prepare for an assault on djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , the largest city still in the hard boys' hands. For months, Iraqi troops, militias and Kurdish fighters have been clawing back territory town by town, making their way toward the northern city. In Qayara, which is the main town in the area and remains in IS hands, beheadings and extrajudicial killings that previously were occasional became commonplace in a hunt for spies and deserters, said Jarjis Muhammad Hajaj, who was among thousands of residents who fled fighting in the area and now live in the Dibaga Camp for displaced people in Kurdish-run territory. "They started making raids on houses, arresting people and beheading them," he said. Hajaj said the group's fighters appeared increasingly nervous as they watched news of IS loses elsewhere. The reliance on younger fighters in smaller communities could be a sign of overstretched manpower as the group's more veteran Fighters as young as 13 or 14 were patrolling in the village of Awsaja on the other side of the river, said one resident, who asked to be identified by his nickname Abu Saleh for fear of reprisals against his family in areas still under IS rule. He said the |
| Posted by:Fred |