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| Ministry: 1,300 Peshmerga dead since start of war with ISIS |
| 2015-10-02 |
| [RUDAW.NET] In more than a year of fighting with 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.... group (ISIS), 1,300 Peshmerga soldiers have been killed and 52 are missing, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said Thursday. "We release the new statistics on casualties every two weeks. According to the latest one, we have 1,300 deaders and 52 missing," said Jabar Yawar, chief of staff and front man of the KRG's Peshmerga ministry. Besides the dead and missing, some 5,000 Kurdish soldiers also have been maimed since August last year, when ISIS attacked the Kurdistan Region, igniting a war that has raged ever since. Peshmerga forces have racked up some major victories against the Lion of Islams, known in Arabic as Daesh, especially in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. On Wednesday, the troops liberated 17 villages in a major offensive on the Kirkuk frontlines. After large ISIS losses in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... social media sites affiliated with the hard boyz posted a video showing the beheadings of captured Peshmerga. The video shows the gruesome beheadings of seven Peshmerga soldiers purportedly captured by the religious zealots over the last several months. Yawar has said that the reliability of the video has yet to be confirmed. ISIS has beheaded other Peshmerga soldiers in the past, including the execution of officer Hujam Surchi before a large crowd in djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... in January. Yawar has said the KRG has made every effort to gain the release of captured Peshmerga. "But Daesh is a terrorist group and has no understanding of dialogue or the rights of hostages," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |