[Iran Press TV] Spokesman for the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) says thousands of pro-government fighters are going to participate in the upcoming operation to retake the northern city of Tal Afar from the ISIS Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorists.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with Leb-based Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network on Friday, Ahmed al-Asadi said 20,000 volunteer forces, commonly known by the Arabic name Hashd al-Sha’abi, will take part in the forthcoming battle for Tal Afar, located 63 kilometers west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
He added that Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, is going to set the zero hour to start the operation.
"We have information about the presence of foreigners within ISIS ranks in Tal Afar, but we do not know their identity," Asadi pointed out.
He noted that the operation to liberate Tal Afar will not take long, but rather several weeks.