Three IS militants wounded gunfighting to win a cousin’s heart
Islamic State’s militants. File photo
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Three Islamic State militants were wounded Friday in Kirkuk exchanging gunfire after all vied to get engaged to their cousin who is also a group member.
A local source in the province told Alsumaria News that the trio, all cousins, exchanged gunfire near a village in the town of Hawija, the group’s biggest stronghold in the province’s southwest, after all wanted to get engaged to the same woman.
The woman, nicknamed “Um al-Hareth”, is a member of the Islamic State’s Hisbah (vigilantism) service, which observed civilians’ commitment to the group’s extremist code of conduct, said the source.
He added that Islamic State’s mufti in Hawija, interfering the to end the brawl, proposed to the girl and engaged her to “put down potential sedition” as he put it.
Reported divisions and infighting among Islamic State militants reached their peak as Iraqi forces made more victories against the group in the past months, most notably the recapture of the group’s largest bastion in Iraq: Mosul.
Kirkuk is one of the next targets of Iraqi military actions seeking to put an end of the IS’s three-year occupation of Iraqi regions. Only a few thousand militants are thought to remain in IS havens in Kirkuk, Anbar, Nineveh and Salahuddin.