Commander Zardasht Shingali's death was confirmed to Rudaw news hound Tahsin Qadir by a relative on Wednesday afternoon.
Shingali is believed to be one of the five militia members confirmed killed by Iraqi Security Media Cell after a YBS vehicle was targeted by an unidentified
...KABOOM!...
in Dugure, known in Arabic as Hatein. The Cell said the strikes took place at 11:35 am.
Qassim Khalaf, a former member of the Khanasor Local Council told Rudaw English earlier on Wednesday that jets struck a YBS position in the Shingal village of Dugure, north of Mount Shingal at approximately 11:00 am.
According to Tahsin, the strike was conducted by a
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
neither the Cell nor Khalaf identified the strike as
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund...
has previously conducted airstrikes in the Shingal region, the Yezidi homeland devastated during the war against the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS).
The YBS was established in Shingal, reportedly with the assistance of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), a guerrilla organization fighting for greater political and cultural rights for the largely repressed Kurdish minority in Turkey.
Local Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) leader Zaki Shingali was killed in a
Since liberation from ISIS in December 2015, Shingal has been controlled by a variety of gangs, including the YBS, the Iraqi army, the Peshmerga, the People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi in Arabic).
A Twitter account close to the