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Saint Michael, the archangel of battle, is tattooed across the back of a U.S. army veteran who recently returned to Iraq and joined a Christian militia fighting Islamic State in what he sees as a biblical war between good and evil.
Brett, 28, carries the same thumb-worn pocket Bible he did while deployed to Iraq in 2006 – a picture of the Virgin Mary tucked inside its pages and his favorite verses highlighted.
“It’s very different,” he said, asked how the experiences compared. “Here I’m fighting for a people and for a faith, and the enemy is much bigger and more brutal.”
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A Dwekh Nawsha militia member stands next to a flag of the Assyrian Patriotic Party, as he stands guard on the rooftop of a building in the Christian village of Bakufa, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) north of Mosul, Iraq…
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