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| Iraq Forces Take Yazidi Town of Sinjar from Kurds |
| 2017-10-18 |
| [An Nahar] Iraqi forces captured the Yazidi Kurdish town of Sinjar from Kurdish forces on Tuesday as they pressed a campaign against Kurdish-held areas outside the autonomous region, paramilitary units said. The Popular Mobilisation Forces, made up largely of Iran-trained Shiite militias, said Kurdish forces had withdrawn from Sinjar without a fight. The northwestern town is infamous as the site of one of 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's worst atrocities when it killed thousands of Yazidi men and kidnapped hundreds of women as sex slaves in 2014, prompting an exodus into the mountains that helped trigger US intervention. |
| Posted by:Fred |