IRAQ. Malla Abdulah. July 11, 2014. The flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) flies from the roof of a building next to a canal in the village of Malla Abdulah, on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk. The canal in the village of Malla Abdulah, about 25KM south of Kirkuk, demarcates the front line between Kurdish Peshmerga and territory controlled by ISIS.