ISIS, Iraq, Syria

Rod1 said:
Seems to me like Kurds need some soviet style commissars.
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It's the Sunni Arab rebels among Kurdish forces that are running away. Basically these are your "moderate rebels" who decided to switch sides because they saw ISIS and Al-Qaeda losing. They'll promptly change their allegiance if jihadist ever got the upper hand again.
 
The Yazidi men left behind: 'ISIL destroyed us'
Yazidi men whose wives and children were abducted by ISIL are struggling to cope with the uncertainty of their fates.
  • Duhok, Iraq - Salem Khalaf, a 63-year-old tractor driver, vividly recalls the day in August 2014 when ISIL fighters attacked the Sinjar region.

    Upon hearing that the group was drawing near and that security forces had fled, Khalaf and other Yazidi men sent their families away, while they remained in place, taking up small arms to defend their homes.

    But they were no match for the fighters with ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS). After just a few days, Khalaf and his remaining neighbours fled to the mountains, taking the route that thousands of other Yazidis had followed. They faced starvation and dehydration along the way.

    Khalaf has a proud and strong voice, but when he starts talking about his wife and five children - who were 10, 11, 16, 18 and 23 when he last saw them in August 2014 - he looks at the ground and can barely find words. All were kidnapped by ISIL as they attempted to flee on the family's tractor.

    "My daughters used to hug me every day when I came back from work. I often used to bring little presents for all my children - dolls, plastic animals, flowers and make-up - small things to make them happy," Khalaf told Al Jazeera while sitting in his tent in a camp for displaced Iraqis near the city of Duhok. "And my wife was so beautiful and nice. We really made a good team."

    Salem Khalaf's wife and children were last seen in Tal Afar nearly two years ago [Brenda Stoter/Al Jazeera]
    A few months ago, Khalaf went back to his home in the village of Hardan, north of Sinjar, to find it completely destroyed. Everything valuable had been taken, except for the gifts he bought for his two boys and three girls. When he saw their personal belongings lying on the floor, Khalaf collapsed.

    "At first, I wanted to bring some of their belongings with me, but I couldn't bear the thought of seeing these things every day. It hurts too much," he said.

    According to his sister-in-law, Ida, Khalaf's wife and children were last seen in Tal Afar nearly two years ago. Ida was also kidnapped by ISIL, but released months later along with 200 other Yazidis, mostly elderly women and children. Since then, no trace of Khalaf's family has been found.

    "I know that ISIL is selling them now as slaves. That is what they do with Yazidi women and girls," he said with a broken voice.

    More than 6,400 Yazidis were kidnapped by ISIL when the group attacked Sinjar in August 2014, according to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Most of the men were killed and dumped in mass graves, while the women and children were abducted, repeatedly raped or forced to fight for the group.


    Since then, more than 3,000 Yazidis have managed to escape, the KRG says. When the battle for Mosul started late last year, many Yazidi families hoped that their family members soon would be rescued.

    "We asked the Iraqi army to cut off the road to Syria in an early stage. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Therefore, ISIL had plenty of time to transfer a lot of kidnapped Yazidis to other places, and because of this, we couldn't rescue as many of them as we were hoping for. Thousands of them are still missing," Hussein al-Qaidi, director of the KRG's Office of Kidnapped Affairs in Duhok, told Al Jazeera.

    The Yazidi men left behind say they feel betrayed not only by the military forces, who withdrew in the face of advancing ISIL troops, but also by some of their Arab neighbours, who advised them to surrender. Many Yazidi families took that advice, they said, only to find out later that these neighbours were cooperating with ISIL. Questions of "what if" continue to haunt many of the men.

    I try to smile and pretend to be OK, but the truth is that it hurts me a lot to see people happy. Happy people remind me of the past. I cannot even imagine that I once was a happy man with a family.

    Khudeda Msto Haji, Yazidi man whose family was abducted by ISIL

    "When ISIL was advancing, we fled to the mountains. After a few days, we decided to look for water and food in a nearby village, as we were starving. When we were there, some of our Arab neighbours came to us. They promised to protect us," Khiri Abdallah, a 35-year-old schoolteacher, told Al Jazeera. "My wife and children went with them, and I went back to get the others. We trusted them."

    Instead, Abdallah's family was handed over to ISIL. He later found out that his wife and children were brought to Syria and sold to an ISIL fighter from Tunisia, who later carried out a suicide attack. "Other ISIL members came to my family, gave them $500 and told my son that his father went to heaven," he added.

    Abdallah was recently reunited with his sons Shalal, 14, and six-year-old Hachem, after more than two years. His wife and teenage daughter are still being held in ISIL territory.

    In another camp in the Kurdish region of Iraq, 66-year-old Khudeda Msto Haji lives alone. Once a respected man in the town of Khanasor with a family and his own casino and catering business, he now lives alone in a tent, struggling to scrape by each day. Sometimes, he even talks to his children, pretending that they are sitting next to him in the room.

    Showing pictures of his abducted children and wife, Haji says: 'I lost everything when ISIL attacked us' [Brenda Stoter/Al Jazeera]
    As he shows pictures of his wife and children, tears roll down his cheeks. "What did she do to deserve this? Why did they do this to us Yazidis? ISIL destroyed us," he asked.

    Haji recently started working as a cook again to provide support for his eldest son, who is studying medicine at university and was not at home when ISIL attacked the area.

    Every wedding Haji attends makes him feel even more depressed. "I try to smile and pretend to be OK, but the truth is that it hurts me a lot to see people happy. Happy people remind me of the past. I cannot even imagine that I once was a happy man with a family," he said, noting that he would do anything to rescue his wife and children from ISIL's grip.

    "Another Yazidi survivor told me that my daughter was sold to a fighter in Raqqa, [Syria]. I now need $30,000 to pay for the smuggler - money I don't have," he said. "I lost everything when ISIL attacked us."
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...-men-left-isil-destroyed-170524091425142.html

Raped murded enslaved and sold out by their own neighbours for the crime of having a different religion.

This is why i have no sympathy whatsoever for the poor ''innocent'' Sunni Arabs in Iraq.
 
godking said:
The Yazidi men left behind: 'ISIL destroyed us'
Yazidi men whose wives and children were abducted by ISIL are struggling to cope with the uncertainty of their fates.
  • Duhok, Iraq - Salem Khalaf, a 63-year-old tractor driver, vividly recalls the day in August 2014 when ISIL fighters attacked the Sinjar region.

    Upon hearing that the group was drawing near and that security forces had fled, Khalaf and other Yazidi men sent their families away, while they remained in place, taking up small arms to defend their homes.

    But they were no match for the fighters with ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS). After just a few days, Khalaf and his remaining neighbours fled to the mountains, taking the route that thousands of other Yazidis had followed. They faced starvation and dehydration along the way.

    Khalaf has a proud and strong voice, but when he starts talking about his wife and five children - who were 10, 11, 16, 18 and 23 when he last saw them in August 2014 - he looks at the ground and can barely find words. All were kidnapped by ISIL as they attempted to flee on the family's tractor.

    "My daughters used to hug me every day when I came back from work. I often used to bring little presents for all my children - dolls, plastic animals, flowers and make-up - small things to make them happy," Khalaf told Al Jazeera while sitting in his tent in a camp for displaced Iraqis near the city of Duhok. "And my wife was so beautiful and nice. We really made a good team."

    Salem Khalaf's wife and children were last seen in Tal Afar nearly two years ago [Brenda Stoter/Al Jazeera]
    A few months ago, Khalaf went back to his home in the village of Hardan, north of Sinjar, to find it completely destroyed. Everything valuable had been taken, except for the gifts he bought for his two boys and three girls. When he saw their personal belongings lying on the floor, Khalaf collapsed.

    "At first, I wanted to bring some of their belongings with me, but I couldn't bear the thought of seeing these things every day. It hurts too much," he said.

    According to his sister-in-law, Ida, Khalaf's wife and children were last seen in Tal Afar nearly two years ago. Ida was also kidnapped by ISIL, but released months later along with 200 other Yazidis, mostly elderly women and children. Since then, no trace of Khalaf's family has been found.

    "I know that ISIL is selling them now as slaves. That is what they do with Yazidi women and girls," he said with a broken voice.

    More than 6,400 Yazidis were kidnapped by ISIL when the group attacked Sinjar in August 2014, according to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Most of the men were killed and dumped in mass graves, while the women and children were abducted, repeatedly raped or forced to fight for the group.


    Since then, more than 3,000 Yazidis have managed to escape, the KRG says. When the battle for Mosul started late last year, many Yazidi families hoped that their family members soon would be rescued.

    "We asked the Iraqi army to cut off the road to Syria in an early stage. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Therefore, ISIL had plenty of time to transfer a lot of kidnapped Yazidis to other places, and because of this, we couldn't rescue as many of them as we were hoping for. Thousands of them are still missing," Hussein al-Qaidi, director of the KRG's Office of Kidnapped Affairs in Duhok, told Al Jazeera.

    The Yazidi men left behind say they feel betrayed not only by the military forces, who withdrew in the face of advancing ISIL troops, but also by some of their Arab neighbours, who advised them to surrender. Many Yazidi families took that advice, they said, only to find out later that these neighbours were cooperating with ISIL. Questions of "what if" continue to haunt many of the men.

    I try to smile and pretend to be OK, but the truth is that it hurts me a lot to see people happy. Happy people remind me of the past. I cannot even imagine that I once was a happy man with a family.

    Khudeda Msto Haji, Yazidi man whose family was abducted by ISIL

    "When ISIL was advancing, we fled to the mountains. After a few days, we decided to look for water and food in a nearby village, as we were starving. When we were there, some of our Arab neighbours came to us. They promised to protect us," Khiri Abdallah, a 35-year-old schoolteacher, told Al Jazeera. "My wife and children went with them, and I went back to get the others. We trusted them."

    Instead, Abdallah's family was handed over to ISIL. He later found out that his wife and children were brought to Syria and sold to an ISIL fighter from Tunisia, who later carried out a suicide attack. "Other ISIL members came to my family, gave them $500 and told my son that his father went to heaven," he added.

    Abdallah was recently reunited with his sons Shalal, 14, and six-year-old Hachem, after more than two years. His wife and teenage daughter are still being held in ISIL territory.

    In another camp in the Kurdish region of Iraq, 66-year-old Khudeda Msto Haji lives alone. Once a respected man in the town of Khanasor with a family and his own casino and catering business, he now lives alone in a tent, struggling to scrape by each day. Sometimes, he even talks to his children, pretending that they are sitting next to him in the room.

    Showing pictures of his abducted children and wife, Haji says: 'I lost everything when ISIL attacked us' [Brenda Stoter/Al Jazeera]
    As he shows pictures of his wife and children, tears roll down his cheeks. "What did she do to deserve this? Why did they do this to us Yazidis? ISIL destroyed us," he asked.

    Haji recently started working as a cook again to provide support for his eldest son, who is studying medicine at university and was not at home when ISIL attacked the area.

    Every wedding Haji attends makes him feel even more depressed. "I try to smile and pretend to be OK, but the truth is that it hurts me a lot to see people happy. Happy people remind me of the past. I cannot even imagine that I once was a happy man with a family," he said, noting that he would do anything to rescue his wife and children from ISIL's grip.

    "Another Yazidi survivor told me that my daughter was sold to a fighter in Raqqa, [Syria]. I now need $30,000 to pay for the smuggler - money I don't have," he said. "I lost everything when ISIL attacked us."
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/fe...-men-left-isil-destroyed-170524091425142.html

Raped murded enslaved and sold out by their own neighbours for the crime of having a different religion.

This is why i have no sympathy whatsoever for the poor ''innocent'' Sunni Arabs in Iraq.
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This has got to be one of the most depressing post I've read on sherdog.
 
AlexDB9 said:
I for one miss the the guy who would put heavy in front of every other word ie "heavy islamic tank"...he was probably btfo in syria and rightfully so
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@liquidfire and his heavy main Islamic battle tank
 
loyalyolayal said:
This has got to be one of the most depressing post I've read on sherdog.
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Depressing and infuriating.

That country is fucked.

I can see why the Kurds would decide to evict "innocent" sunni arabs from regions that they take back from ISIS.

How could you ever trust neighbours again after that.
 
godking said:
Depressing and infuriating.

That country is fucked.

I can see why the Kurds would decide to evict "innocent" sunni arabs from regions that they take back from ISIS.

How could you ever trust neighbours again after that.
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And at the same time, our media tried so hard to portray Shiite militias as the Iranian backed flip side to the ISIS coin when the tide turned. What we saw from Sunni Arabs were legitimate attempts at genocide but when Shia get some revenge kills on confirmed ISIS members and collaborators, this is somehow equal to what they have done.

I'm sure they would have tried to portray the Yazidis in the same way if the entire world wasn't sympathetic to them. God forbid these people expel Sunni Arabs for pulling off such a betrayal.
 
More mainstream reports of shitBaghdadi's death emerging:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-baghdadi-idUSKBN19W1AW

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...aghdadi-confirmed-deadsyrian-watchdog-claims/

Most of them are citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as being the source for confirmation of shitBaghdadi's death. May turn out to be nothing, but it is starting to seem as if the Russians really did take him out a month ago.

If the Russians did take him out, and couple that with the leaked video of Spetsnaz taking a sledgehammer to a piece of shit ISIS headchopping executioner... pretty good month for the Russians.
 
Raqqa proving out to be a deadly fight for the SDF.







RIP.
 
Information coming in with some footage that ISF is carrying out a Speicher alike liquidation operation in the last bastions of IS in old city of Mosul.
 
Even the Salafists (Al Qaeda and ISIS) can't get along amongst themselves.

This is why the often touted claim by Islamic supremacists and certain eager Muslims that Islam is the answer to all the world's problems is total bullshit.
 
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Lonesome Crow said:
More mainstream reports of shitBaghdadi's death emerging:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-baghdadi-idUSKBN19W1AW

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...aghdadi-confirmed-deadsyrian-watchdog-claims/

Most of them are citing the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as being the source for confirmation of shitBaghdadi's death. May turn out to be nothing, but it is starting to seem as if the Russians really did take him out a month ago.

If the Russians did take him out, and couple that with the leaked video of Spetsnaz taking a sledgehammer to a piece of shit ISIS headchopping executioner... pretty good month for the Russians.
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Stahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhp! Youre making whogonIScall cry at the thought of headchoppers getting sledgehammered.
 
American Forces kills Abu Sayed in Afghanistan.
 
Turkish backed FSA forces attack on YPG near Tal Rifaat in northern Aleppo appears to be rather unsuccessful.

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MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For one Iraqi lieutenant, the fight against the Islamic State group in Mosul has been a slow, methodical quest for revenge. For three years, he has hunted for two IS militants from his village who he believes killed his father. Along the way, he has shot to death detained militants after interrogating them, he acknowledges unapologetically.

And if he catches either of the men he is searching for, the lieutenant vows he will inflict on him "a slow death" and hang his body from a post in the village after forcing him to reveal where his father's body is buried.

That sort of thirst for vengeance in the wake of military victories is fueling extrajudicial killings of suspected IS members at the hands of Iraqi security forces in and around Mosul. Videos that emerged last week showed troops in Mosul taking captured IS suspects and throwing them one by one off a high wall next to the Tigris River, then shooting their bodies below.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-officer-seeks-vengeance-mosul-060611658.html

Can't say i blame him.
 
godking said:
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — For one Iraqi lieutenant, the fight against the Islamic State group in Mosul has been a slow, methodical quest for revenge. For three years, he has hunted for two IS militants from his village who he believes killed his father. Along the way, he has shot to death detained militants after interrogating them, he acknowledges unapologetically.

And if he catches either of the men he is searching for, the lieutenant vows he will inflict on him "a slow death" and hang his body from a post in the village after forcing him to reveal where his father's body is buried.

That sort of thirst for vengeance in the wake of military victories is fueling extrajudicial killings of suspected IS members at the hands of Iraqi security forces in and around Mosul. Videos that emerged last week showed troops in Mosul taking captured IS suspects and throwing them one by one off a high wall next to the Tigris River, then shooting their bodies below.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraqi-officer-seeks-vengeance-mosul-060611658.html

Can't say i blame him.
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They deserve it.I dont care about Headchoppers getting murked.
 
Pwent said:
i dont see how any of this is our (USA's) problem, other than killing those who are a threat to us
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U.S. forces are in Syria (a small number, around 500) to help with the Syrian opposition against Assad and the refugee crisis. In the process we are also fighting ISIS who is fighting against Assad and the opposition. Yeah, its all a little confusing. We don't need to be aligned with Syria, Russia, and Iran to fight ISIS. Each side can do their part in destroying ISIS. Only thing that concerns me are those Iranian missiles hitting U.S. forces or Israel. Israel is already slowly being dragged into the conflict, which is really bad news for the U.S. The enemy of my enemy is my enemy, not my friend. ISIS is beginning to crumble from within. There will not be a power vacuum in Syria since the opposition already has a man selected to put into power. This is not and will not be another Iraq. Obama helped create ISIS in 2014. He also helped create the refugee crisis. He certainly helped in the killing of thousands of women and children.
 
-hts and anhar fighting getting heavier in idib ...hts being protested against by unarmed people throwing rocks calling them shabia (assads thugs)
Tanks pictured on some streets now

-trump ends support for fsa forces to please russia ...literaly no word of what u.s gets in return
As others have pointed out this means u.s loses ability to stop other gulf states suplying rebels instead.
 
The US no longer supporting FSA forces means that the war is effectivelly over in Syria.

Assad is firmly entrenched in the major population centres of Syria and is not going to be deposed.

Adn with rebel infighting Assad's forces can continue slowly pushing rebels out of lands the Syrian goverment wants to control.

ISIS is almost done and no longer a real threat.
 
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