Assyrian Christians form battalion to combat ISIS
Assyrian Christians in the Nineveh plains, with the help of a group of Americans, are building a battalion to combat the so-called Islamic State.
The Nineveh Plain Protection Units, or NPU, is composed of 350 to 500 men trained by Sons of Liberty International, an American-led nonprofit organization aimed at “stepping in where governments in the international community have failed.”
Its founder, Matthew VanDyke, a New York filmmaker who fought in the Libyan civil war and spent six months as a prisoner of war under the Muammar Qaddafi regime, said when the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, executed his friends James Foley and Steven Sotloff he started to focus on stopping its spread.
