...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) hard boyz attacked Peshmerga forces in Kirkuk province’s Altun Kupri district on Saturday, reportedly killing two Peshmerga fighters, according to a statement from Kurdistan’s Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD).
The attack by the hard boyz happened at Zorgazraw region of Kirkuk’s Altun Kupri district, around 40 kilometers northwest of Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
where two Peshmerga fighters were killed, according to the statement from CTD.
A statement from the Ministry of Peshmerga identified the two dead as Khalid Hameed and Ako Karim.
Nuri Hama Ali, a commander of the Peshmerga forces in Kirkuk told Rudaw over the phone that they are looking into the attack and resulting casualties.
A Peshmerga told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity that a number of Peshmerga have been injured in the attack.