Tribal Mobilization Or Tribal Fighters is an

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

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tribal group made up of the sons of the tribes to fight

ISIS Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingd ...

. There is another group sometimes called the Tribal Mobilization, but its former name is the National Mobilization Forces (now the Nineveh Guards) linked to

Atheel al-Nujaifi Atheel al-Nujaifi ( ar, أثيل النجيفي; tr, Esil Nuceyfi; born 1958) is an Iraqi politician who was the Governor of Nineveh Governorate from April 2009 until May 2015. Nujaifi was born into a Mawsili family in 1958. He is a brother o ...

. In 2017, the deputy head of the tribal mobilization, Thamer Al-Tamimi, said in an interview with Al-Hiwar satellite channel that Sunni leaders in Iraq have given up on the

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and have concluded that relying on these countries will not help the Sunnis in

, especially since some of these countries use the Sunnis in

as a tool in Its struggle for influence in the region with

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, he confirmed that the tribal mobilization had contacted a number of Gulf countries to request support and support in confronting

, but they did not respond and did not pay the slightest attention, as he put it.

US bombing allegations

In October 2016, Iraqi officials announced the killing of 21 Tribal Mobilization Forces during a US bombing south of

Mosul Mosul ( ar, الموصل, al-Mawṣil, ku, مووسڵ, translit=Mûsil, Turkish: ''Musul'', syr, ܡܘܨܠ, Māwṣil) is a major city in northern Iraq, serving as the capital of Nineveh Governorate. The city is considered the second large ...

References

Anti-ISIL factions in Iraq Popular Mobilization Forces {{Iraq-stub