Watch this video of Kurdish Peshmerga destroying an Islamic State truck bomb. The Peshmerga are the official armed forces of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan. They aren’t the YPG or YPJ militias. The video is important for several reasons. First, it shows that two MILAN antitank guided missiles were fired but missed the truck. Since sound travels…
How Kurds defeat the Islamic State
February 24, 2015
One of the most strategically important villages in northern Iraq is Sultan Abdullah, located about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of the Iraqi Kurdish capital of Irbil. A remarkable video shows how the outgunned Kurds and their Sunni Arab allies took back the village from the Islamic State. First, some photos that the Islamic State…