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| Iraq |
| Kurds won’t enter Mosul City |
| 2016-10-28 |
| Bet they will if Iraqi forces need reinforcements. [ARA News] Erbil – Lieutenant General Jabbar Yawar, Secretary-General of the KRG Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs and the Spokesperson of the Kurdistan Region’s armed forces, told ARA News that after liberating Bashiqa District from ISIS, the Kurdish forces will not go to Mosul city. “According to the agreement with Baghdad, the Peshmerga’s forces will create a line [of defence], while the Iraqi army will advance further. We will not go to the centre of Mosul,” General Yawar said. “Only Iraqi army, federal police and local police will ever the city.” Kurdish Peshmerga forces have surrounded the town of Bashiqa, and today took the village of Fadiliye, saving civilians from the grip of ISIS. However, the city itself has not been taken yet. Civilians in the Fadiliye Village welcomed the Peshmerga forces with white flags, and described them as “liberating forces”. After Bashiqa, Peshmerga forces will only assist Iraqi forces as part of the Mosul operation, although in the future Peshmerga forces will also play a role in liberating southern Sinjar and Hawija, in northern Iraq, from ISIS. The Peshmerga spokesperson also denied reports that Turkey was part of the Mosul operation. “No, there are no relations; Turkey is not part of the planned operations. We have no relations with Turkey,” General Yawar told ARA News in an exclusive interview on Thursday. “The Ministry of Peshmerga has no relations with Turkey; we only have agreement with the [US-led] coalition and the Iraqi government [regarding the ongoing battle for Mosul],” he stressed. Nevertheless, ARA News sources confirm that Turkey-backed Sunni Arab fighters are part of the Mosul operation, but not the Turkish army itself. Furthermore, the Peshmerga spokesperson said that the Hawija operation “has not started yet”, although there has been an agreement to launch it earlier. “Battle for Hawija needs a lot of forces, that’s why the operation is a bit late, but it will happen,” he concluded. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #9 "Why should they? It's not their city." They prefer not to, but Erbil is but a small hump up-hill from Mosul. Let's just say they have an "elevated interest". Pretty country by the way. |
| Posted by: newc 2016-10-28 20:11 |
| #8 The lack of specific news indicates things are not going well, and the Kurds are right to stay out of what looks to be a shambolic bloodbath. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-10-28 19:38 |
| #7 Kurds have no dog in the fight in Mosul proper. I doubt they could be convinced to come in and die for those areas as long as the Shia militias and others are willing cannon fodder. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2016-10-28 18:36 |
| #6 Iblis, do tell, new documents? Note that the division of Berlin was already set in stone, how would the western powers have benefited from taking it first? History read it or repeat it along with Practical Math. :) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-28 16:49 |
| #5 ...you ignore 'the corporal' was directly in charge and didn't need a long reach to deal with 'traitors'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-28 15:42 |
| #4 "The Eisenhower approach to Berlin? Let the Russkies take it and pay the price?" Bullshit. The Germans would not have opposed allied forces. They did fight the Soviets for obvious reasons. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2016-10-28 13:18 |
| #3 Why should they? It's not their city. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-10-28 11:54 |
| #2 Let the Shiite militias martyr themselves. Win, Win. |
| Posted by: brujotejano 2016-10-28 08:47 |
| #1 The Eisenhower approach to Berlin? Let the Russkies take it and pay the price? (81,116 dead or missing, 280,251 sick or wounded -wiki) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-10-28 07:55 |