Baghdad : Militants and local armed clans gained ground on Monday in a battle for a strategic Shiite enclave in northern Iraq that provides a corridor to Syria, officials and residents said.
Multiple officials and a resident said militants had entered Tal Afar, a Shiite Turkman-majority town in Nineveh province, with one saying they were in control. “Armed groups managed to take control of Tal Afar,” a Nineveh provincial government official told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. “They clashed with security forces and (tribal fighters), who had to withdraw from the town.” But security forces insisted they had repelled the assault on the major Shiite-majority town.
Interior ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said that militants had not encroached on the town, proclaiming that fighters “do not control one meter of Tal Afar”.
Fighters led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants have taken control of vast swathes of territory of north and north-central Iraq in a matter of days. The town has provided a crucial bulwark against militant-controlled territory on either side of Iraq’s border with Syria. ISIS fighters aim to establish a Caliphate on both sides of the Syria-Iraqi frontier based on strict medieval Sunni Muslim precepts. Their advance has been assisted by other Sunni Muslim armed groups. The advance has alarmed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s Shi’ite supporters in Iran as well as the United States, which helped bring Maliki to power after its 2003 invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
HA/IINA
Why 9/11 had to be created my Bush ,why Iraq & Afghans had to be attacked. Why ALLAH SWT did not help Muslims against their enemies.
Who created the division between Shia & sunnies.
When we can pray in the Siha & Sunni Mosques .Why they kill each other.
Even Muslims performed Salat with Quadanies .Because they Bowed to ALLAH SWT & not to Quadanies.
Which Anti Islamic people are advising each other to fight & kill Muslims against Muslims. Why Muslims had no Patience.Why they did not peacefully sttod against Syria. Why Iraquies cannot live with
Shias & others.
Why they cannot use same Mosques for prayers.
Holy Prophet Mohammed(MSAS) rightly said that as the end time will be nearing , there will be 73 Sects & only one sect will truly follow Sunna & be understanding & peaceful.
You learnt divide & rule from west first & then from Non Muslims & now you are suffering.
Muslims against Muslims what Islam you follow? May ALLAH SWT unite Muslims of this world with Islamic Justice & senses & acumen & true
Spirit of Islamic unity.
@”Even Muslims performed Salat with Quadanies”
1. quadianis are not Muslims.
2. How do u know that Muslims performed Salat with quadianis?
3. If you are a Muslim, did u ever perform salat with a qadiyani?