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2021-12-12 Iraq
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Suspected Turkish warplanes target Shingal twice in five days
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[Rudaw] Suspected Ottoman Turkish warplanes launched an Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
for the second time within five days in the Yazidi heartland of Shingal (Sinjar) district on Saturday with no casualties reported, Yazidi activists and groups said.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
bombed the town of Khanasor on the Syrian border targeting a building that was used by the Autonomous Administration Council of Shingal, established by Sinjar Resistance® Units (YBS), for meetings, Murad Ismael, co-founder of Sinjar Academy and a Yazidi activist said in a tweet.
"This building is one few good building in the town and was used before ISIS for social and political activities, weddings," he said referring to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
by its acronym. "In addition to the horror this strike caused, and assuming no casualties, this building worthed [sic] 200,000 dollars and it’s gone now," he added.
The YBS was established to protect the Yezidi community in Iraq in 2007, playing a crucial role in the fight against Islamic State (ISIS) after it overran the district in August 2014 and committed genocide against the the ethno-religious minority.
The district has been hit by multiple Ottoman Turkish airstrikes in recent years, which appeared to have given more reasons to the displaced Yezidis not to return from camps in the Kurdistan region to their ancestral homeland. Ankara justifies its strikes by claiming Mount Shingal is host to a number of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions and considers YBS to be linked to them.
The Free Yezidi Foundation called out the international community to stop Turkey. "How many Yezidis must die before Turkey is stopped?" The NGO said in a tweet. They added that ISIS "came to eradicate the #Yazidi on land; now Ottoman Turkish places + drones attack from above."
Hundreds of thousands of Yazidis fled their homes in the summer of 2014, seeking shelter on Mount Shingal, and then in the Kurdistan Region with a limited number resettled in Europa
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
and North America. In the first days of the genocide, 1,293 people were killed and over 6,000 people were kidnapped, according to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Office for Rescuing Kidnapped Yazidis. Over 2,000 remain missing.
The region has stayed unstable due to the presence of a number of armed militias, constant Ottoman Turkish airstrikes and the dispute between Baghdad and Erbil over who runs the district.
Five days ago, a commander of YBS, Marwan Badal Haji was killed in a Ottoman Turkish airstrike in the same town a stronghold of YBS. He was traveling in a vehicle accompanied by two of his children who survived the attack. Marwan was known as Haval Dezhwar amongst the locals and hailed from the same area.
Earlier in August, a Ottoman Turkish airstrike killed two members of the YBS, including a senior commander and three civilians. Another airstrike hit a hospital in Shingal a day later, killing four care workers and four YBS fighters. 
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