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| Iraq |
| Islamic State seize town of Sinjar, pushing out Kurds and sending Yazidis fleeing |
| 2014-08-03 |
| The pesh merga are known for their fighting prowess, but rocky relations with Baghdad mean they have no munitions supplies from the central government and their soldiers have not received salaries for months. Meanwhile, their lack of sovereignty complicates arms purchases from abroad and Baghdad put a temporary hold on cargo flights to the north last month. The senior Kurdish intelligence official said pesh merga forces had made a “tactical retreat” from Sinjar to allow civilians to leave after overnight fighting in the area. However, soldiers withdrawing from the town said that they had run out of ammunition, said Falah Hassan, 42, a Yazidi resident who spoke by phone as he fled across the mountains on Sunday. Sinjar is an ethnically and religiously mixed town, and its population had swelled in recent weeks as those displaced from nearby areas by the advancing extremists sought refuge. Among them were thousands of Shiites and Yazidis from Tal Afar, which Islamic State seized last month. It's hard to fight when you run out of ammo and the sectarians in Baghdad won't support you. |
| Posted by:KBK |
| #4 At last check, the ISIS/ISIL has suppos seized three towns + an oil field in Iraq, to which the Kurds + pro-Iran IGA + Iran proper is responding wid Reinforcements + new MilOps. * TOPIX > [Daily Star] IRAN ELITE GUARDS [IRGC] FIGHTING IN IRAQ TO PUSH BACK ISIS. TEHRAN = IRAN of course cannot confirm or deny they have forces in Iraq, but perhaps more imortantly ITS WHY GLOBALIST POTUS OBAMA IS SSSSHHHHH ... CCCCCCCCC ALLOWING, N-O-T DISALLOWING, IRAN TO KEEP + EXPAND? ITS NUCPROGS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-08-03 23:12 |
| #3 I know its likely Obama is MB but this is really rude. the Yazdi don't bother anybody. Could the king in his castle (er whitehouse) find it in his cold heart of coal to give a few tidbits to the kurds? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-08-03 23:05 |
| #2 Before Obama we only had to deal with Al Qaeda. Now we have to deal with Al Qaeda, ISIL, and Boko Haram. But wait, Obama still has at least 2 more years to go. |
| Posted by: Thineng Angailet7166 2014-08-03 22:10 |
| #1 Sectarians in DC as well - we had them fairly well supplied during the no-fly zone times. The Intelligence and Defense folks can do it, if they only had orders to help the Kurds instead of sitting on their hands under Obama/State doctrine, effectively screwing our only true allies in the region |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-08-03 20:18 |