[Rudaw] KHANAQIN, Kurdistan Region — Firas Mahmoud and his family have abandoned their home in the town of Muqdadiyah (Sharaban) and fled for their lives twice in less than two years. Once they fled from 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....
(ISIS) and now from Shiite militia groups.
"We went back home four month ago for the first time since the liberation of the town from Daesh [Islamic State] (ISIS). Our home was a ruin so we rented a house there to live in but we couldn’t," said Mahmoud, 37, who arrived with a dozen other families a week ago at the Alwan Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Khanaqin.