Clutching his rifle intently, the Iraqi recruit maneuvered between
piles of bricks and cement obstacles. The sound of shooting pierced the
air and he jumped behind a wall, lifted his rifle and imitated the
staccato sound of gunfire.
It was only a training exercise—the man is among the few dozen Assyrian Christian militiamen conducting military drills in a training camp at the foot of the mountains overlooking the Nineveh plains of northern Iraq.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/christian-militias-fighting-isis-seek-us-help
It was only a training exercise—the man is among the few dozen Assyrian Christian militiamen conducting military drills in a training camp at the foot of the mountains overlooking the Nineveh plains of northern Iraq.
http://americamagazine.org/issue/christian-militias-fighting-isis-seek-us-help