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Yep. These militias are crazy. Mosul's only hope is if the Turks backstab the Iraqis and their militia friends, doubt anything of that sort will happen though.

There are large sunni tribal militias that were wanting to join the mousil offensive (trained by the turks) I'm not sure if they have joined though, since Baghdad ruled only the army and Peshmerga to carry the offensive.

Tbh it would be difficult for the Iraqi government to manage so many groups with independent interests all fighting in one region - the power vaccuum once they have ousted ISIS would likely cause the different groups to fight each other in order to secure control of Mosul

Because it's a sectarian conflict which has been raging on since before ISIS - after the Iraq war, a number of the disillusioned Sunni soldiers who had been dispanded joined resistence groups and terror groups. These groups fought against government and occupying forces, as well as Shia militia in the south. Some of these groups would bomb Shia populated areas, shrines etc, and equally these militia would carry out retalition attacks. When ISIS formed out of one of these terror groups, they simply carried on doing what they had been doing for years i.e. attacking Shia. The Shia militia used to be smaller, but as ISIS has grown, they have received increasing amounts of funding and arms from Iran, and therefore they have grown massively, and it is arguable that they have more power than the official Iraqi army; their longstanding grudges remained the same, thus they carry out attacks and abuses in retaliation on a larger scale now, and again, it's not limited to killing ISIS and its supporters, because this is a pre-ISIS grudge.

Because of this hatred and suspicion, it is not abnormal for the Iraqi soldiers and militia troops to have contempt for the people they are 'liberating' - if they aren't ISIS soldiers, then they are ISIS supporters in their eyes, and if they aren't ISIS supporters, then well tough luck I guess.

Unfortunately it's going to get worse. These militias and parts of the Iraqi army are as bad as ISIS. Only difference is ISIS hates shias and these guys hate sunnis. Their time will run out and then all these groups and organisations will have to face the consequences of their actions before their Lord.

Ohhh, I see I see it all makes sense now thank you. SubhanAllah, the poor civilians suffering because of all this nonesense. May Allah facilitate their situation.

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It will just be a repeat of what happened in Falloujah.
Where even those fleeing didn't escape. I remember seeing a video of an entire convoy of civilians burned to crisp which shows the charred remains of a child hugging their parent in one of the pickups. I don't watch graphics things and wasn't expecting to see that image, but when I saw. I couldn't sleep for days, it disturbed me.

Ohhh, I see I see it all makes sense now thank you. SubhanAllah, the poor civilians suffering because of all this nonesense. May Allah facilitate their situation.

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OMD I feel very sad just imagining it.

If ISIS is killing shias and they're aware of that why aren't they killing them back instead of attacking sunnis..?

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I never knew an Iraqi army existed, I'm shocked, and I agree. I don't get why a lot of countries are becoming so sectarian or do I just don't know this has been happening in Iraq before?
InshaAllah.

I was watching the news before and I was telling my parents how everything is getting worse in Iraq and Syria. And they were sad too and recalled the never ending war in Afghanistan and the hard times the people went through there and are still going through now as a consequence. Such a mess.

I wouldn't advocate that, it will only pour more oil into the messy fire that is iraq.

It's not a very good army, probably not good morally or good in actual strength. This stuff did happen in the Iraq war (and in Saddam's era before that) but most of us would've been kids and kids don't pick up on this stuff. Only later I read up on these things and thought wow all these things happened. They're probably going to repeat again tbh because once those militias have done their killing in Mosul and elsewhere, you'll certainly get some sunnis who will retaliate eventually for their family or friends etc that were murdered. And some of those sunnis will go into the extremes like the militia.

Oh I see how this links in now. I will research more into this inshaAllah, thank you. I know I can imagine, it has happened before but I don't think it would be the best way bc they'd be going round in circles.

I was just talking to dad about this after I finished cleaning when the guests left, shared the article with him. Yeah subhanAllah dad mentioned an attack that happened in Afghanistan and it was done by shias, they targeted sunnis in the masjid.

There are large sunni tribal militias that were wanting to join the mousil offensive (trained by the truks) I'm not sure if they have joined though, since Baghdad ruled only the army and Peshmerga to carry the offensive.

It's not all bad. You get some positives from time to time.

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