[RT] The Iraqi military is engaged in fierce fighting against 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....
Death Eaters in the Tal Afar district, where bully boyz have fled from the city itself and remain holed up in the town of al-Ayadiya. As the operation enters its final stage, RT looks at what is making it so difficult.
"The gates of hell" is what Iraqi Colonel Kareem al-Lami calls the battle now facing Iraqi troops near Tal Afar, according to Rooters.
US-backed Iraqi troops lauded the almost complete liberation of the strategic town of Tal Afar, held for three years by Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS), on August 27 after a week-long operation. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the forces are currently struggling to defeat the bully boyz in the small town of al-Ayadiya a few miles north of Tal Afar, where the remaining Death Eaters continue to resist.
This last step towards the liberation of the district is even tougher than the battle for djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, located some 60km to the east, Colonel al-Lami says. That operation took eight months and was finished in June.
"We thought the battle for Mosul’s Old City was tough, but this one proved to be multiple times worst," al-Lami told Rooters on Wednesday.
Diehard Death Eaters with nothing to lose
Hundreds of Death Eaters are reportedly holding the ground in al-Ayadiya. Their exact numbers remain unclear, and they are apparently some of the toughest fighters that IS has.
"Our intelligence shows that the most diehard ISIS [IS] fighters fled Tal Afar to al-Ayadiya," Lieutenant Colonel Salah Kareem said, as cited by Rooters. "We are facing tough fighters who have nothing to lose and are ready to die."
Those bully boyz who don't stand and fight attempt to flee the battle zone by hiding among displaced civilians on the run. At least 200 Death Eaters were found during security checks of 2,000 refugees, Iraqi news reports, citing the Kurdish Peshmerga, which is also fighting against IS in the area. Kurdish forces also killed 130 more Death Eaters on the way to Syria, Iraqi news reported on Tuesday.
Ruins filled with explosives
During their retreat from the city, IS bully boyz left behind deadly traps that have turned Tal Afar "into a sappers’ nightmare" as explosives could be hidden anywhere, RT correspondent Murad Gazdiev reported from the ground.