Assyrians Disarmed and Abandoned to ISIS by Kurdish Peshmerga

In 2014, the Assyrians of the Nineveh Plans were forcibly disarmed by the Kurdish Peshmerga, the military force loyal to the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq. Soon afterwards, the Islamic State (ISIS) invaded the Nineveh Plains. The Peshmerga fled from ISIS without firing a shot, despite having pledged to protect Assyrians, Yezidis, and other minorities until the very last minute before abandoning them to genocide.
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