After ISIS, Two Iraqs Emerge in Iran’s Shadow
In describing the three years he spent fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group from the banks of the Tigris to the Makhoul mountains and Iraq’s desert frontier with Syria, Mohammed Jassem did not call himself a soldier. Fresh from battle, flush with victory, Jassem is a Shiite holy warrior, a mujahid. On his battered mobile phone, Jassem played a grainy video from […]Callum Paton writes for Newsweek:
In describing the three years he spent fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) militant group from the banks of the Tigris to the Makhoul mountains and Iraq’s desert frontier with Syria, Mohammed Jassem did not call himself a soldier.
Fresh from battle, flush with victory, Jassem is a Shiite holy warrior, a mujahid.
On his battered mobile phone, Jassem played a grainy video from November 2017 of fighting in the deserts around al-Qa’im, the last ISIS-held town in Iraq, before the vital strategic link in the militants’ once expansive supply network was liberated.
