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RE: War on ISIS - Jay Coop - 06-30-2017
Watch as a Kurdish YPJ sniper narrowly escapes death.
RE: Wars in Iraq and Syria - RandomGuy199 - 06-30-2017
I would really like to understand what they're saying. She seems so cheery, even after a freaking bullet passed near her face!
RE: Wars in Iraq and Syria - Jay Coop - 06-30-2017
@RandomGuy199. Here's an excerpt from The Washington Post:
Quote:The sniper looks to the camera in startled disbelief, then sticks her tongue out after realizing what happened.
Mutlu Civiroglu, a Syrian and Kurdish affairs analyst, reviewed the video for The Washington Post and provided a rough translation.
“I killed Daesh,” the sniper says, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State, according to Civiroglu. Someone off camera said the bullet almost killed her. She laughs and asks to stop recording, Civiroglu said.
Source:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/06/28/a-bullet-almost-killed-this-kurdish-sniper-then-she-laughed-about-it
RE: Wars in Iraq and Syria - Jay Coop - 07-10-2017
Mosul has been liberated.
Source:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40558836
RE: Wars in Iraq and Syria - Ryccia - 07-11-2017
All praise to the Iraqi people. I do worry about the Sunni north, however. After all, the oppression and/or misrepresentation by the Shi'a majority in the south after Saddam was one of the causes of ISIS's rise in Iraq, if I recall correctly. If Iraq wants to stop sympathies to ISIS in the north, the Shi'a should build bridges with the Sunni.
Iraqi Kurdistan will also hold an independence referendum on November, if I remember well. What will happen then as well?
RE: Wars in Iraq and Syria - Jay Coop - 07-11-2017
(07-11-2017, 10:59 AM)Ryccia Wrote: All praise to the Iraqi people. I do worry about the Sunni north, however. After all, the oppression and/or misrepresentation by the Shi'a majority in the south after Saddam was one of the causes of ISIS's rise in Iraq, if I recall correctly. If Iraq wants to stop sympathies to ISIS in the north, the Shi'a should build bridges with the Sunni.
Iraqi Kurdistan will also hold an independence referendum on November, if I remember well. What will happen then as well?
To be fair about it, the Sunnis are also guilty. They had it so good when Saddam Hussein was in power and did little to nothing when he oppressed the Shiites. Nonetheless, sectarianism needs to end. The Southern Kurds held a referendum in 2005 and it was 99% in favor of independence. At the most, another referendum result in favor of independence is just a double down on policy.
RE: Wars in Iraq and Syria - Ryccia - 07-11-2017
If Iraq truly cares about stability, they should just forget about the past, mend relations between the two, and just move on. Iraq in essence is an artificial nation created by the Sykes-Picot agreement, so if it has any interest on existing, it must be harmonious in this aspect. Just because the Sunnis are guilty doesn't mean the Shi'a have a right to revenge.
I do support Kurdish independence. They deserve it. This Kurdish separatist movement can go on peacefully. Iraq is an artificial nation, so if an entirely different ethnic group other than Arabic lives in the north, genocided by Saddam and oppressed until recently, they have every single reason to be independent if they so wish.
RE: IS/Wars in Iraq and Syria - Ryccia - 07-25-2017
This isn't Iraq nor Syria, but it is terrorism and Russia-related. Sorry
US and Afghanistan officials claim the Russian government is supplying the Taliban with small arm weapons to fight ISIS in Afghanistan, but Russia denies all allegations. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/07/25/afghanistan-claim-russia-arm-taliban-paton-walsh-pkg.cnn
RE: IS/Wars in Iraq and Syria - Jay Coop - 07-25-2017
(07-25-2017, 01:10 AM)Ryccia Wrote: -- snip snip, snip snip --
Don't worry, you're on topic. I've been changing the title time and again these last few weeks to allow any mention of ISIS to be on topic for this thread.