to widen the divide between the two or it the Israeli option that is appealing?
IS also executed over 1000 sunnis "murtad" in sallahiddin. They destroyed and looted hundreds of homes belong to anti-IS families. When the PMF entered the towns of Dour, Alem and the villages around them, hundreds of houses were tagged with "property of the Islamic state".
There are also a sunni group as part of the PMF with more than 1,200 fighters in Sallahiddin other than the hundreds of iraqi Sunni soldiers. Many had quit their job but decided to rejoin the army after their families were exiled. Tens of thousands of sunnis have been exiled by IS, not just a few "murtad" families.
Besides these are the same people responsible for the mass graves during Saddams time.
They gave up their iraqi identity as well as the right to live in Iraq when they joined an invading army and join the (un)"Islamic state". They have lost all their rights including the right to live.
IS still controls over 50% of the city.
And IS pushed Shia forces out of Ramadi today.
Yes but it's only been the second day since the assault on Tikrit, and the 8th day since the entire operation started.
An attack from east Tikrit hasn't started because the bridge is still being fixed. It may take a few days but it seems the forces pushing from the other fronts will take Tikrit before the bridge is fixed.
As for the other cities where only the army and sunni tribal fighters are holding up, they only have to keep status quo untill the PMF arrive.
It may take a couple of months but eventually IS will
@Malik Alashter
What do big Sunni Iraqi tribes such as Dulaym (3000000) think about this offensive against ISIS? How will they react? Are they neutral or pro-isis?
Dulaim isn't exacly one big tribe. There are tens of sub-tribes within the Dulaim, some have sided with IS, some against.
in Anbar, 30% are with IS, 10% are against, while the others decided either to sit aside or leave the province. Majority of people who left hate the government, but also hate IS for destroying their cities. Most of them don't really know what they want, take Ali Hatem for example.
Also the pro-IS tribes have committed crimes against the anti-IS tribes, so it's a big mess. If the PMF does succeed, then the anti-IS sunnis will start chasing down the anti-IS sunnis as we have seen in Alem especia
Destroying someone house and erasing their life history in a couple minutes has never been a solution to appease dissent. Maliki's death squad and the marginalizing of the Sunnis
No, the "sunnis" your talking about hated the iraqi army even when the vast majority of the soldiers patrolling their areas were sunni. The "sunnis" simply couldn't except any shia government, regardless of how he works or how much representation they get.
Besides, The majority of PMF hate Maliki and see him as a failed leader who enabled the mess that they are currently trying to deal with.
Suppose the "opression against sunnis" is true, why did these "sunnis" attack the yezedis and Christians, and why do they kill innocent shia civiians?