The US-led coalition to defeat 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....
group (ISIS) suspended training operations in early March to protect personnel from the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...Colonel Myles B. Caggins III, the coalition front man, told Rudaw Radio on Monday that coalition and NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
commanders are in talks with Kurdistan Region Government (KRG) to resume Peshmerga training by end of next month.
Although operations have been scaled back in recent weeks, they have not stopped altogether. Coalition jets launched an
...
KABOOM!...
in support of an anti-ISIS ground operation in Wadi Ashai, southern Kirkuk on Monday, killing 20 murderous Moslems, according to a statement published Friday.
The pandemic has not slowed the ISIS resurgence either. The group’s Death Eater activities have increased in recent weeks, with turbans killing an Iraqi federal police officer at a checkpoint in Hawija, western Kirkuk on Sunday.
This was the third deadly attack on Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in the disputed territories in just one week.
Two Peshmerga fighters were killed and another maimed in an ISIS attack in Kolajo in the Garmiyan area in early April, followed two days later by the killing of two Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighters in Tuz Khurmatu.