{"id":1184,"date":"2015-07-09T10:08:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T10:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1184-800-christians-join-popular-mobilization-units-battling-isis\/"},"modified":"2015-07-09T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T10:08:12","slug":"800-christians-join-popular-mobilization-units-battling-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1184-800-christians-join-popular-mobilization-units-battling-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"800 Christians join Popular Mobilization Units battling ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<address class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 18.6666660308838px; line-height: 21.4666652679443px;\">are training 800 Christian volunteers to battle ISIS<\/span><\/address>\n<address class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0 <!--more--> <\/address>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">Popular Mobilization Units or the Hashd al-Shaabi, are training 800 Christian volunteers to battle ISIS in its stronghold ofMosul, a source from the Babylon Battalion said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">The sources said that as local forces prepare for the Mosul operation to clear out ISIS gunmen, 800 Christian volunteers have also joined the Battalion of Babylon that belongs to the Popular Mobilization Units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;\">According to the source, the Christian volunteers have been training in three military camps in the city of Baghdad and Salahuddin province.<br \/> This is not the first time non-Shia have reportedly joined the Popular Mobilization Units.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;\">The Shia fighters signed up 100,000 volunteers in June in Iraq\u2019s ongoing war against the so-called Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>are training 800 Christian volunteers to battle ISIS \u00a0 \u00a0 Popular Mobilization Units or the Hashd al-Shaabi, are training 800 Christian volunteers to battle ISIS in its stronghold ofMosul, a source from the Babylon Battalion said. 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