‘The Sound of God’: In Iraq, US Airpower Bolsters the Peshmerga’s Fight Against ISIS

The old peshmerga general smiled at the sound of the U.S. fighter jets. “That’s the sound of God,” he said.

Kurdish soldiers look toward ISIS lines. Nolan Peterson/The Daily Signal

MOSUL FRONT, Iraq—The old peshmerga general smiled at the sound of the U.S. fighter jets. “That’s the sound of God,” he said.

Gen. Omar Hama Ali Farag held a pair of binoculars to his eyes, scanning Islamic State positions about a mile away, across the Great Zab River in the direction of Mosul.

“There’s two Daesh fighters hiding beneath a tree in front of the white house,” Farag told me, using a pejorative Arabic acronym for the Islamist terrorist army also known as ISIS.

He handed me the binoculars. “Have a look.”

And there they were. Clear as day and in the flesh.

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