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Iraqi Christians form militia to battle Isis

An Iraqi security officer stands guard outside the Church of the Virgin Mary in the northern town of Bartala east of the northern city of Mosul(Getty)
Christians have formed their own militia to battle Isis on the plains on Nineveh, Iraq.

The Nineveh Plains Protection Units have more than 3,000 members already mobilised or awaiting training, and the backing of the Iraqi government and Kurdish peshmerga forces, reports the Catholic Herald.

More than 100,000 Christians were forced to flee Iraq's Nineveh plains for the neighbouring Kurdish region when Isis swept through the region in northern Iraq last June.

The force has 500 men stationed in towns on the plains including Alqosh to defend them from the Islamist group, with a further 3,000 in training, and is planning to roll back Isis' advances.

"The objective is to liberate their land in Nineveh Plain and to take charge of security in these areas afterward," said Yaco Jacob, a Christian parliamentarian in the Kurdistan Parliament, according to Al Arabiya News.

Along with Christians, thousands of the Yazidi minority were forced to flee Isis violence, with men caught by the group summarily executed and thousands of women and girls subjected to sexual slavery.

The defence force aims to establish an administrative area for the Yazidi, as well as minorities including the Shabaks and Mandeans.

The newspaper reports that the force is being funded by the Assyrian diaspora in countries including the US, Australia, and Sweden, and is being trained by a US security company.

A spokesman for American advocacy group Restore Nineveh Now told US News that American fundraising efforts began last June, and that non-Christians were free to join the force.

He said that Americans had so far donated $25,000 to the group.

Iraq analyst Sajad Jiyad told IBTimes UK's sister publication Newsweek Europe that the formation of the militia sent an important message.

"It's also important for the locals to send a message to Isis that they are not going to allow the demographic change to become permanent."

"The Assyrians want their land back and they – as well as the Turkmen and the Yazidis – are sending a message that: We are going to come back and we are not going to leave our villages and towns and our cultures to be destroyed,'" Jiyad continues. "We want to come back to our homes and, no matter what we face, we're willing to fight and take that back.' I think that is a positive message for the entire nation."

The Christian community in Nineveh is one of the oldest, stretching back around 2,000 years.

Since Isis took control in areas of northeastern Iraq, scores of churches have reportedly been destroyed, and remaining Christians issued with a strict set of instructions they must adhere to if they wish to remain in the area.

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U.S. Stations Black Hawks in Kurdish Capital to Ire of Baghdad



Filed Under: World, Iraq, ISIS, Kurdistan

The United States has deployed an additional number of Black Hawk helicopters to Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region, raising the prospect of a widening rift between Baghdad and the Kurds over their role in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).

The helicopters are intended to increase the capability of the coalition forces to rescue downed pilots after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) halted its air operations due to safety concerns following the capture of Jordanian pilot Moaz al-Kasasbeh by ISIS. However, U.S. officials have declined to confirm if this development will bring UAE back into the coalition fold.

“The United Arab Emirates has demanded that the United States put in place a more effective search-and-rescue system in Northern Iraq, close to the battleground, instead of basing aircraft for such missions much farther south in Kuwait,” says Wladimir van Wilgenburg, an analyst on Kurdish politics for the Jamestown Foundation.



However, according to the New York Times the Iraqi government has been angered by the stationing of the helicopters in the Kurdish capital, with officials in Baghdad voicing their complaints to U.S. officials that the deployment will increase Kurdish calls for independence.

Baghdad had explicitly protested the American decision to deploy the Black Hawks to Kurdistan, a senior U.S. administration official reported. However, the official declined to reveal how many helicopters were being dispatched to the region.

“Erbil is much closer to ISIS territory than Baghdad, so it’s quite logical that they place them in Erbil. Black Hawks are reconnaissance and rescue helicopters, they are not meant to carry out combat missions,” adds van Wilgenburg.

Last month, 5,000 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters backed by coalition airstrikes, launched a large-scale operation against ISIS in northern Iraq, recapturing a 300-mile swathe of territory including the towns of Makhmour, to the east of Iraq’s second-city of Mosul, and the towns of Zimar and Wannah, west of Mosul.

However, this recapturing of territory sparked further fears in Baghdad that the Kurds will maintain their hold on the Iraqi territory and use it as leverage in future negotiations on Kurdish independence.

A senior Kurdish federal official, speaking on condition of anonymity to Newsweek, said that the land would never be handed back. “All the current military operations that involve the Peshmerga are implemented in coordination with the international military coalition and the central government is aware of it, but, in the Kurdish areas, we will never ever let Arabs control them again,” the official warned.

“We are not ready to fight, terrify our fighters’ souls to liberate these areas and hand them to a traitor who would sell it to the killers. We will not allow this scenario to take place again in these areas.”

The Kurds’ success on the battlefield in northern Iraq has also led to disagreement between Erbil and Baghdad over their respective roles in any potential operation on the city of Mosul, which ISIS seized last summer.

Iraqis believe that the battle against “[ISIS] is everyone’s to fight”, according to Hamed al-Khudari, a senior Shia lawmaker, while Kurds believe that Arab-Sunnis within the city must liberate the territory themselves.

Last year, the president of the Kurdistan region, Marsoud Barzani, pleaded with the international community to provide military aid as ISIS edged closer to its territory. Italy, France, Australia, Britain and the U.S. have since all pledged arms to the Kurds, bypassing the traditional move of delivering military aid to Baghdad first before it was transported to Kurdistan.

http://www.newsweek.com/washington-stations-black-hawks-kurdish-capital-ire-baghdad-304916

Cyrax a écrit:

L'ASL et les kurdes longent l'Euphrate vers le sud sans rencontrer trop de résistance de la part de daesh.
Ici le pont Shuyukh Fawqani au sud est de Jarabulus.

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deash devrait se replier ailleurs aussi dans les prochains jours qui viennent. Peut être plus rapidement que l'on s'y attend.

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L'aviation jordanienne a mené 56 raids en trois jours contre l'EI


Reuters 08/02/2015

L'armée de l'air jordanienne a annoncé dimanche que ses appareils avaient mené 56 raids en trois jours d'intenses bombardements contre des positions du groupe djihadiste Etat islamique (EI) dans le nord-est de la Syrie.

"Nous avons atteint nos objectifs. Nous avons détruit des centres de logistique, des dépôts d'armes, et avons pris pour cibles des repaires des djihadistes", a expliqué le général Mansour al-Jbour, chef de l'armée de l'air jordanienne, lors d'une conférence de presse.

Le groupe Etat islamique a diffusé mardi dernier une vidéo revendiquant l'exécution d'un pilote de l'armée de l'air jordanienne capturé par les jihadistes en décembre. La Jordanie avait alors confirmé la mort de Moaz al-Kassasbeh et promis de la venger avec force.

Le roi Abdallah de Jordanie avait dénoncé un acte de terreur commis par un groupe déviant qui n'a rien à voir avec l'islam.

http://www.lorientlejour.com/article/910375/laviation-jordanienne-a-mene-56-raids-en-trois-jours-contre-lei.html

ils sont arrivés!

juba2 a écrit:

C'est un menteur commenet il va faire plus de 5000 sorties en 3 jours!!!!! minutes 2"06. j'espere que j'ai tor