After victory in key Iraqi town, time for revenge


  • World
  • Monday, 27 Oct 2014

JURF AL-SAKHAR Iraq (Reuters) - After helping government forces break Islamic State's grip over a strategic town just south of Baghdad on Saturday, Shi'ite militias decided it was time for payback.

A Reuters witness saw the fighters in green camouflage uniforms scream and swear at members of the Islamist group as they kicked and struck them with rifle butts in Jurf al-Sakhar.

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