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Iraq
Iraqi representative warns government of IS resurgence in Nineveh
2019-04-23
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Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi parliamentarian has warned the government of rising activity by ISIS (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....
) gunnies in the west of Nineveh province, north of the country, raising alert of a possible resurgence of the krazed killer group.

Nineveh MP Ahmed Madloul al-Jarba, in a letter to Prime Minister Adel Abdel-Mahdi, published by Alsumaria News, said "the situation in western Nineveh has become unfavorable, with ISIS kidnapping people and targeting villages in al-Baaj region, which forced locals to migrate", pointing to "an intense activity by the group over the past days, which he attributed to "the absence of military troops in the region".

Addressing the prime minister, al-Jarba said "if your excellency does not directed for sending troops to the aforementioned regions, a scenario similar to that of 2014 is likely".
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