ISIS praises US murder of Iranian general Soleimani as ‘divine intervention’ that will help them ris

[BHarwana]

Islamic State terrorists rejoiced at the death of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani at the hands of his American ‘allies,’ according to a weekly newspaper affiliated with the group that once controlled much of Syria and Iraq.
Soleimani was killed by a US drone strike on January 3, as he was being driven, with others, near Baghdad international airport. In reprisal, Iran launched a limited strike on US bases in Iraq with ballistic missiles on Tuesday, causing no casualties but demonstrating a capability to hit US assets at will.

The weekly Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) newspaper Al-Naba portrayed Soleimani’s death as an act of god in support of its cause, and Muslims in general, according to BBC Monitoring.

An editorial in the jihadi paper was careful not to credit the US or even mention Soleimani by name. It couched the gloating in a historical analogy, referring to “Roman-Persian wars” that enabled early Muslims to overrun both Persia – today’s Iran – and parts of the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as Byzantium.

The paper also reported on the US and its allies suspending operations against IS as an opportunity for the group’s resurgence, according to BBC journalist Mina Al-Lami.

While IS has not been entirely destroyed, it has not controlled any territory for months. Soleimani’s Quds Force fighters were among those that turned the tide against the IS ‘caliphate,’ alongside the Syrian Army and the Russian expeditionary force in Syria – while the US-backed Iraqi army and Kurdish militias advanced from northern Syria and Iraq.

Citing the possibility IS might reappear, the US is refusing to withdraw from Iraq in open disregard for its ‘partners’ in the government in Baghdad. Iraqi lawmakers passed a nonbinding resolution demanding US withdrawal shortly after Soleimani’s killing, but the US State Department said on Friday that no such thing would be happening.

Both the US and several of its NATO allies have suspended their training of Iraqi security forces for the moment, as they braced for Iranian reprisals. Some allies even pulled their personnel out of Iraq to neighboring Kuwait. However, US President Donald Trump has called for an expanded role for NATO in Iraq.

https://www.rt.com/news/477991-isis-praise-soleimani-assassination/

 

[Pax Pakistanica]

What's worrisome about the Islamic State is how they have found antipathy among the millions of people who were forced to flee from their homes to avoid the yoke of Shia militia rule.

For example, Mosul's Sunni majority population is filled with great resentment of the Shia militia rule that the Islamic state believes will gradually push the city back into their orbit without its own active intervention. Their influence in Syria is highly limited though.

 

[Saddam Hussein]

What's worrisome about the Islamic State is how they have found antipathy among the millions of people who were forced to flee from their homes to avoid the yoke of Shia militia rule.

For example, Mosul's Sunni majority population is filled with great resentment of the Shia militia rule that the Islamic state believes will gradually push the city back into their orbit without its own active intervention. Their influence in Syria is highly limited though.

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It's not that black/white. They mostly fled due to their homes being destroyed. PMU isn't sect cleansing, no one's really interested in that.

Though that's another problem, big reconstruction is needed whilst preserving security. Those people need to be returned to their home's

 

[Pax Pakistanica]

It's not that black/white. They mostly fled due to their homes being destroyed. PMU isn't sect cleansing, no one's really interested in that.

Though that's another problem, big reconstruction is needed whilst preserving security. Those people need to be returned to their home's

This is from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) which claims to be an organization that produces strictly non-partisan, non-ideological, and fact-based research. Though I understand that things could be much different on the ground than what they claim through mere research.