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| Officer: Dozens flee ISIS on Makhmour front |
| 2015-10-09 |
| [Rudaw] At least 40 people, including whole families, have beat feet from ISIS over the past two days and reached the Peshmerga frontlines in southern Kurdistan, Aras Haso Mirkhan, deputy commander of the of the Makhmour-Gwer front told Rudaw on Thursday. "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.... gunnies are suffering due to the lack of weapons and they are forcing citizens to join them in the fight, this made many young men want to escape," Mirkhan said. At 2am on Thursday, 11 people who had escaped ISIS -held Mishar village on the Makhmour-Gwer frontline submitted themselves to Peshmerga. Mirkhan said the 11 people are not ISIS murderous Moslems, but people who had escaped out of fear of the organization. On October 1, US-led coalition Makhmour, in disputed lands south of Erbil, was captured by Islamic State and occupied for three days earlier this year. The area was recaptured by Kurdish forces backed by coalition ISIS positions are less than 21 km away from Makmour, prompting Peshmerga forces to have strengthened their security measures. |
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