The Shabak Militia is an armed group that formed in 2014, with around 1,500 militiamen, to regain control of the Nineveh region from the Islamic State. Further goals, beyond regaining control of the region, were to protect against and oppose The Islamic State. The Iraq Parliament Representative of the Shabak Community, Salim Juma, obtained a verbal approval to from this militia for the purposes stated. Juma informed news sources of this move in September 2014, the group officially formed as the Quwat Sahl Nīnawā (QSN) on November 23, 2014. Videos later released by the group, however, appear to only show 500 fighters at most, though accurate estimates can not beItalic text drawn from said videos. The group is said to be heavily opposed to Kurdish control, but seem to be primarily dedicated