The fatwa issued by Ayatollah Sistani on this day nine years ago marked a significant event in the region’s political history and a turning point in the fight against and defeat of Daesh in Iraq.
Nine years ago, on June 12-13, 2014, Daesh terrorists captured and murdered at least 1,700 Iraqi Shi’a Air Force cadets outside Tikrit Air Academy (formerly known as Camp Speicher) in northern Iraq.