Members of Calgary's Kurdish community gathered Sunday at City Hall
to protest the brutal massacres of Yazidis, Christians and Arabs by the
terrorist group ISIS and called for greater international support for
Kurdish fighters battling the group.
ISIS, or the Islamic State, militants have captured vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria over the past several months with the goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate. Just this week, the group captured nearly a dozen towns and villages in Syria's Aleppo province and is currently engaged in a battle with Kurdish forces over the strategic Mosul Dam in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
Read more: CBC News - Calgary Kurds rally at City Hall against ISIS brutality
ISIS, or the Islamic State, militants have captured vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria over the past several months with the goal of establishing an Islamic caliphate. Just this week, the group captured nearly a dozen towns and villages in Syria's Aleppo province and is currently engaged in a battle with Kurdish forces over the strategic Mosul Dam in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
Read more: CBC News - Calgary Kurds rally at City Hall against ISIS brutality
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