...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS) of being behind the blast.
"Today at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, an improvised bomb went
kaboom!in Islahi village in Gulala, injuring two people and killing another," Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Mustafa of the Peshmerga forces intelligence told Rudaw, using an alternative name for Jalawla, in Diyala.
ISIS took control of Jalawla beginning in August 2014, burning down houses of Kurdish and Shiite families. The Peshmerga forces drove out the murderous Moslems in November 2015.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the city and other areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad fell to the Iraqi Army and the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces [PMF] militias, or Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic, in October 2017 following the Kurdistan Region’s referendum on independence.
Jalawla’s security has been left in the hands of the local police and Hashd forces, who don’t seem to coordinate.
Rudaw reached out to Garmyan police, but they were unavailable to comment on the earth-shattering kaboom.
ISIS has been active in disputed areas, benefitting from the gap in security, and have grabbed credit for a number of crop fires in the area.
Mahmoud Sangawi, a former Peshmerga commander in Jalawla when the Peshmerga controlled the area, claimed in May that the PMF were committing "Arabization" by burning Kurdish crop fields, forcing them to flee their homes.
"They raid Kurdish homes every night, burn their wheat and barley farms, blow up their cars, and plant bombs in their farms so they flee the place," Sangawi told Rudaw. "This round of Arabization has started in a different way and with a different strategy. It is the Hashd al-Shaabi who is responsible for this."