Kataib_Rouh_Allah_Issa_Ibn_Miriam

Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam

Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam

Add article description

Kataib Rouh Allah Issa Ibn Miriam (Arabic: كتائب روح الله عيسى بن مريم; lit. The Brigade of the Spirit of God Jesus Son of Mary) is a militia composed of Christian Assyrians, trained and supplied by an Iraqi Shi'ite militia as a subgroup in the fight against ISIL.

Quick Facts Dates of operation, Allegiance ...

Formation and activities

Kataib Rouh was formed in December 2014 as a Christian subgroup of the Kataib al-Imam Ali (Brigade of Imam Ali), itself the armed wing of Harakat al-Iraq al-Islamiyah (Movement of the Islamic Iraq).[1]

Kataib al-Imam Ali entered the war against ISIL in June 2014 with uniformed, well-armed members. It has been quite active in Amerli, Tuz, and Diyala fighting alongside other Iraqi Shiite militias, all of them backed by Iranian IRGC. In Saladin Governorate, fighters from the group posed in videos with the severed heads of their slain enemies. In late December 2014, the group set about training Christians for a subgroup called Kataib Rouh wing.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Matthew Levitt & Phillip Smyth, Kataib al-Imam Ali: Portrait of an Iraqi Shiite Militant Group Fighting ISIS, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, January 5, 2015.
Stub icon

This article about a specific military unit is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about the military of Iraq is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Kataib_Rouh_Allah_Issa_Ibn_Miriam, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.