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| Iraq |
| Peshmerga recapture strategic areas after intense fight south of Kirkuk |
| 2015-04-20 |
| [Rudaw] Kurdish Peshmerga forces have retaken five villages from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... after launching an offensive Saturday in the south of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... security officials told Rudaw Sunday. The villages of Daquq, Auzeria and Atshana were among the most important areas retaken by Kurdish forces on Saturday. According to Peshmerga commanders in Kirkuk, the southeastern villages of Auzeria and Atshana were of key value to ISIS fighters to link areas under their Control to Daquq. Peshmerga have followed the military plans on Saturday's offensive, and they have successfully reached the results, Sarhad Qadir, director of security in Kirkuk province, told Rudaw Sunday. Responding to Rudaw's question as to whether there was any possible plan to recapture the Turkmen village of Bashir south of Kirkuk, Qadir said the village was not an immediate objective, but the main roads to Bashir had been cleared of ISIS. "If we received an order to recapture the village, it wouldn't be a difficult task," he said. Bashir is home to more than 2,000 families, most of them Shiite Turkmens. This is the second time Kurdish forces have tried to clear Atshana and Auzeria villages from the murderous Moslems. Last month the Peshmerga took temporary control of the areas, but ISIS later regained them. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 They should rename that village given how many times its changed hands... |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-04-20 20:53 |