[Rudaw] The bravery of an elderly Iraqi shepherd has resonated across the country after he was killed in festivities with five 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....
(ISIS) bandidos holy warriors on Saturday night. Before being slain, he had killed three of them and maimed two others.
The incident happened in a remote area 10 kilometers from Tlul Baja village in Sharqat district, Salahaddin province when the ISIS bandidos holy warriors attacked Suhail Najm, a 70-year-old farmer.
A simple, but well-armed, rustic
Najm's confrontation with the ISIS remnants alone has shocked Iraqi officials, local residents, and security forces, even the Iraqi prime minister's representative travelled from Baghdad to attend his funeral.
"Under the command of the prime minister and general commander of the Iraqi armed forces, we came to attend the funeral of hero and innocent martyr Suhail Najm. Our visit to this funeral is to reiterate that deaders are symbols of this country," Brigadier General Saad Halaq, representative of the Iraqi Prime Minister, said.
Locals in Sharqat complained that ongoing ISIS presence in Salahaddin province has caused trouble for the people of the area, making them unable to farm freely.
According to military commanders in Salahaddin province, ISIS fighters carry out attacks in groups of five to eight people, saying most of the fighters are known and locals.
The 91st Brigade of the Iraqi army is responsible for protecting part of the borders of Sharqat district. Military commanders acknowledge that ISIS fighters are active in the area.
ISIS seized control of large swathes of Iraqi land in 2014. The group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 but continues to carry out bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions across several provinces.
The bandidos holy warriors have taken shelter in a security vacuum in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad, stretching across several provinces including Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Salahaddin, and Diyala. 
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