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Iraq
Yazidi, PKK elements in talks to join Iraqi army
2018-03-30
One is grateful, of course, but there comes a time when one must be practical.
Sinjar (IraqiNews.com) Yazidi fighters who fought 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
alongside the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq are in talks with the Iraqi army to join it.

Saad Hamu, a Yazidi journalist, told Sputnik News on Thursday that nearly 1000 Yazidi fighters, including 300 femals, who remained in Sinjar, west of Nineveh’s djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, after PKK’s recent pullout, are in negotiations with the Iraqi government to enlist them in the Iraqi army.

Earlier this week, Sinjar’s mayor, Mahma Khalil, reported the PKK’s pullout from Sinjar and the arrival of Iraqi army vanguards to the region.

PKK said in an earlier statement it was withdrawing from the mainly-Yazidi region as it managed to protect the locals from Islamic State murderous Moslems whose defeat the Iraqi government declared last December.
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