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Iraq
As harvest time begins in Makhmour, ISIS again burns cropland
2020-05-15
[Rudaw] Kazim Sofi, a farmer from Makhmour, had been due to harvest his crops in just a few days — a bumper harvest after good winter rainfall. But in this disputed territory of northern Iraq where Islamic State
...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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (ISIS) forces of Evil roam freely, his livelihood is under constant threat.

On Tuesday morning, as Sofi was tending to his land, the familiar smell of smoke began to drift across the fields.
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