...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 in battle, Syria's Kurds are now eager to show they can bring justice against the hard boy group's members, and the emphasis is on leniency and reconciliation.
The aim is to extend bridges to the Arabs they now rule within the 25 percent of territory in Syria the Kurds control and win international legitimacy. So they abolished the death penalty
, offer reduced sentences to This is in marked contrast to Iraq, where harsh and swift verdicts on IS suspects seem geared to vengeance.
The Syrian Kurds built their justice system from scratch but lack any international recognition, which complicates their efforts to bring hundreds of imported muscle to trial.