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| Iraq |
| ISIS assault defeated by Peshmerga in Tal Afar |
| 2015-09-13 |
| [Rudaw] 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.... Death Eaters launched an assault on a Peshmerga stockade in Gurmz village near Tal Afar, and after three hours of fighting were repelled by Peshmerga forces, according to a Peshmerga official Saturday. "At 6:15 am, ISIS fighters launched an attack on Peshmerga fronts in Tal Afar," Khawal Khodiayd, the commander of the Peshmerga 1st Battalion in Shingal, told Rudaw. Khodiayd added the attack did not result in Peshmerga casualties, saying that US-led coalition On Friday, The Kurdistan region's Peshmerga forces completed an operation that pushed ISIS Death Eaters out of areas south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... military sources told Rudaw. An area of approximately 150 square kilometers (58 square miles) was recaptured from the Death Eaters as Peshmerga forced ISIS out of 13 villages, the sources said. The Peshmerga have remained a bulwark against ISIS expansion in northern Iraq ever since the Death Eaters attacked the Kurds in August last year, igniting a war in which some 1,200 Peshmerga have been killed, according to official figures. |
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