Posted on 12/18/2014 2:25:36 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Kurdish Pershmerga forces say they've recaptured territory near Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq from ISIS and "cleansed" the area of ISIS fighters.
"We have opened a corridor from south of Zummar to the Mountain Sinjar," said Masrour Barzani, chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council, on Thursday. Kurdish military officials said coalition airstrikes were key in the success of their ground forces.
"ISIS is always making damage, killed the people, steal the stuff, kidnapping people, taking money from people. That's what ISIS is doing, and that's not Islam," said Peshmerga fighter Khalid Suleymen Kolaoh, who was on the front line.
This past summer, the siege of Sinjar had forced Yazidis, one of Iraq's smallest minorities, to flee the ISIS advance. They found refuge in the surrounding mountains but were trapped without food, water or medical care in the heat before being rescued.
The U.S. military says it has conducted 1,300 airstrikes to slow down ISIS. In November, airstrikes killed two top-level and one mid-level ISIS leader, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's deputy and the emir of Mosul, a senior U.S. military official told CNN. "We're not seeing the broad offensive movement we saw in May and June," Gen. James Terry, commander of Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters at the Pentagon on Thursday.
He said the military is seeing signs that ISIS is having a hard time communicating with its fighters and resupplying them. There's also social media traffic out of Mosul that shows an "inability of their self-declared caliphate to govern population centers," Terry said.
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Kurds, keep up the great work. Send them to hell where they belong.
These people deserve the deepest depths of hell..killing children? They should be wiped from the earth
Could he be parroting El Presedente Jorge Boosh and the infamous “Islam is a religion of peace” lie?
Could he be parroting El Presedente Jorge Boosh and the infamous “Islam is a religion of peace” lie?
Like ISIS, the Kurds are Sunni Muslims also, and ISIS and the Kurds are fighting each other. That may be the situation that bothers him-Muslims killing other Muslims.
However ISIS is following the religion to the letter and the Kurds have been Infidel collaborators and are fair game for ISIS, as are us Infidels. - Tom
If we had done this in the beginning of ISIS’s rise, they would have been badly crippled by now.
Obama is a traitor!
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