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| ISIS offensive in Shingal results in 1 Peshmerga death | |
| 2015-08-23 | |
| [Rudaw] The Kurdish Peshmerga alongside coalition warplanes defeated an 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.... assault in Shingal on Saturday, a Peshmerga official told Rudaw by phone. "At 10 am, ISIS attacked the Peshmerga outposts in the neighborhoods of Hanfar and Solakh in Shingal, but the Peshmerga repelled them right away," said Issa Zewai, the commander of the 4th Peshmerga Brigade on the Shingal front. Zewai added: "After the assault, we gave coalition warplanes intelligence information about ISIS positions from where they launched the assault, after the bombings, ISIS suffered material damages and casualties in the Solakh neighborhood in southern Shingal." Concerning casualties from the Peshmerga, Zewai said "a Peshmerga was martyred and five others were moderately maimed." Islamic State turbans are still in control of most of the city of Shingal and sporadic festivities since last year are ongoing between ISIS and Kurdish forces in the area, including the Peshmerga and a coalition of Kurdish PKK and YPG fighters from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Syria. From their trenches, Peshmerga forces keep a sharp eye on Shingal [Rudaw] From their sandbagged trenches and bunkers, Peshmerga forces peer over Shingal, the Kurdish-Yezidi city in northern Iraq that was overrun a year ago by 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.... (ISIS) group. The gunnies still control most of the city, but Kurdish fighters and snipers man the frontlines, keeping a close eye on ISIS activity below. The city sits on a vital ISIS supply route from djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... to Raqqa. The Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga and other Kurdish forces engage in daily skirmishes with the hard boys. These photographs by Rudaw capture Peshmerga conditions inside the trenches in Shingal.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 nearly the same altitude if we are talking A-10s. Within 1000 ft of each other. heh. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-08-23 13:02 |
| #1 The Kurdish Peshmerga alongside coalition warplanes Both at the same altitude? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-08-23 12:37 |