[Rudaw] Two brothers from Kalar were handed a five year prison sentence on Sunday when a Sulaimani court found them guilty of communicating with 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) murderous Moslems over the internet.
According to a statement issued by the Garmiyan Asayish press office, the two convicted felons were jugged
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
in June 2018.
"The Kirkuk/Garmiyan Criminal Court on January 13, 2019, sentenced the two brothers to five years and one month in prison," the statement read.
The brothers were aged between 19 and 21.
When ISIS swept across large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, a large number of Death Eater Kurds in the Kurdistan Region pledged allegiance to the group.
According to some estimates, around 500 Kurds including women and teenagers joined the group, many of whom were killed during the battle to liberate ISIS held territory.
The Iraqi government declared the defeat of ISIS in Iraq in December 2017 after security forces, Peshmerga, and the US-led coalition succeeded in recapturing the major urban centers seized by holy warriors.
However,
ars longa, vita brevis...
a low level insurgency has continued across several provinces, particularly Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Diyala, and Saladin, while ISIS remnants have exploited security gaps between Iraqi Army and Peshmerga lines.
ISIS and its fragments continue to operate in the Hamrin mountains close to Kalar.