The van destroyed in the Najaf desert on Tuesday. (Credit: Qassem al-Kaabi/AFP/Getty Images)
It was a shepherd who raised the alarm, and it cost him his life. On March 3, near the city of al-Noukhaib, a pickup truck was found burned out in the middle of the western Iraqi desert. Awad al-Shammari, 29, was behind the wheel. According to revelations from the New York Times, a helicopter chased his vehicle, firing on it repeatedly “until it came to a sudden stop in the sand.” A few days earlier, the Bedouin man had spotted a secret military base and had notified the regional Iraqi command. Dispatched to the site, the troops came under artillery fire and bombardments, killing one soldier and injuring two others. The al-Anbar province is no stranger to the military activities conducted under the auspices of the International Coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, ongoing since 2014 and overseen by the United States. But the...
It was a shepherd who raised the alarm, and it cost him his life. On March 3, near the city of al-Noukhaib, a pickup truck was found burned out in the middle of the western Iraqi desert. Awad al-Shammari, 29, was behind the wheel. According to revelations from the New York Times, a helicopter chased his vehicle, firing on it repeatedly “until it came to a sudden stop in the sand.” A few days earlier, the Bedouin man had spotted a secret military base and had notified the regional Iraqi command. Dispatched to the site, the troops came under artillery fire and bombardments, killing one soldier and injuring two others. The al-Anbar province is no stranger to the military activities conducted under the auspices of the International Coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, ongoing since 2014 and overseen by the United States. But...
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