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Our friends, the Peshmerga, have taken back two areas from ISIS.
As always, the Kurds just need a little help to overcome. Overcome the heavy weaponry ISIS had taken from the Iraqi Army further South.
Keep the strikes up, but none for Maliki's mini-Iran in the South unless Baghdad is truly endanger of falling.
Kurdish Forces Reverse Militant Gains as U.S. Continues Airstrikes
U.S. Warplanes Hit Targets for a Third Day
By DION NISSENBAUM/MICHELLE HACKMAN
WSJ - Updated Aug. 10, 2014 4:01 p.m. ET
Kurdish Forces Reverse Militant Gains as U.S. Continues Airstrikes in Iraq - WSJ
The Yazidis and other minorities, incl Christians, remain in Deep trouble in the area, although the Sinjar Mountain seige has loosened somewhat.
Also reports that Hundreds of Yazidi women have been taken as 'war wives'; an untold amount of casualties on that front.
Our friends, the Peshmerga, have taken back two areas from ISIS.
As always, the Kurds just need a little help to overcome. Overcome the heavy weaponry ISIS had taken from the Iraqi Army further South.
Keep the strikes up, but none for Maliki's mini-Iran in the South unless Baghdad is truly endanger of falling.
Kurdish Forces Reverse Militant Gains as U.S. Continues Airstrikes
U.S. Warplanes Hit Targets for a Third Day
By DION NISSENBAUM/MICHELLE HACKMAN
WSJ - Updated Aug. 10, 2014 4:01 p.m. ET
Kurdish Forces Reverse Militant Gains as U.S. Continues Airstrikes in Iraq - WSJ
I remain in favor of not just a Kurdish autonomus region but a Kurdish state. The latter, admittedly, a much more difficult proposition.BAGHDAD—Kurdish forces said they retook two important parts of northern Iraq on Sunday, reversing gains by Islamist militants while U.S. warplanes conducted a third day of airstrikes on the insurgents. The advance of the radical Sunni group Islamic State into the semiautonomous region last week sparked a humanitarian disaster and prompted the first U.S. military intervention in Iraq in 3 years.
Kurdish fighters overtook Islamic State positions in Makhmur District, a region north of the city of Kirkuk, and the nearby town of Gwair. The fighters, who until recently had called themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS or ISIL, had taken over the two towns last week as part of a broader push toward Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region.
The U.S. State Department on Sunday relocated "a limited number" of staff from the American embassy in Baghdad and the U.S. consulate in Erbil. They will be transferred to the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq and to Amman, Jordan.
The Kurdish advance has restored hope that at least One fighting force in the region is still capable of confronting an Islamist juggernaut that cowed Iraq's U.S.-trained military and quickly snatched more than a quarter of the country during its blitz toward Baghdad in June. Since then, Iraqi forces have been unable to reclaim even modest tracts of land. Sunday's victories demonstrate how important America's military re-engagement in Iraq will be toward restoring the country's fragile cohesiveness.
"We cleared up Makhmour and Gwair of Islamic State militants and 25 villages around it," said a security official for the Peshmerga, the Kurdish soldiers who make up a somewhat independent contingent within Iraq's army. "We have flown the Kurdistan flag again in the center of Makhmour."
The Peshmerga fought for several days to retake the two towns, said Kurdish security officers. Though Kurdish soldiers are known to be Better trained and equipped than other Iraqi troops,[b[ they were at first overwhelmed by the Islamic States' superior weapons, many of which had been pilfered from retreating Iraqi troops in June.[/b] [.......]
The Yazidis and other minorities, incl Christians, remain in Deep trouble in the area, although the Sinjar Mountain seige has loosened somewhat.
Also reports that Hundreds of Yazidi women have been taken as 'war wives'; an untold amount of casualties on that front.
Iraqi Christian families forced to flee their homes shelter in
the St. Joseph Church in Erbil, northern Iraq, Saturday. EPA
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