Wagner: A Prong of the Trifurcate Russian Strategic Failure (Part I)

Historian Al-Dhahabi said of the 102 AH (721 AD) Al ‘Aqr battle: “In it happened the Al ‘Aqr battle, a location near Karbala’ in Iraq between Yazid bin Al-Malhab and Musima bin Abdul Malik, in which Yazid was killed, and his army defeated. Al Malhab [tribe] lost, and Muslima won over them. He killed and committed atrocities against them, with only a few surviving. It was said: The Umayyads sacrificed religion on the day of Karbala’, and on the day of Al- ‘Aqr, they sacrificed generosity.”