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| Peshmerga depart Kobane |
| 2015-04-29 |
| [ARA] Military sources reported on Tuesday that the fourth and last batch of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces left the city of Kobane after completing their military mission of backing Syrian Kurds against ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS/ISIS), and liberating the city as well as various areas in the countryside. The Peshmerga forces played a central role in the liberation of the city of Kobane and its suburbs. Brigadier General Talaat Saleh Zerari, commander of the Peshmerga, told news hounds in Kobane that Tuesday night the decision of the Peshmerga's return to Kurdistan Region of Iraq was issued by the Ministry of Peshmerga. "We are returning tonight to the Kurdistan Region," he said. "We have 124 military personnel, 12 of them are returning with the military vehicles, the rest are flying home to the Kurdistan Region by plane," he added, pointing out that they will return the military equipment in Kobane to the Kurdistan Region. Subsequent to nearly seven months of combatting the IS hardline group in the Syrian Kurdish city and its countryside, the Kurdistan Ministry of Peshmerga has decided to bring its forces home. The Peshmerga have fought alongside the People's Protections Units (YPG) in the predominantly Kurdish areas in northern Syria against jihadists who have been expelled from Kobane under the heavy blows of the Kurdish forces with the support of the U.S. warplanes. According to activists, the departure of the Peshmerga from Kobane was precipitated by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's refusal to allow ammunition and fuel to be delivered across its border to the Peshmerga after its liberation, under the pretext that its agreement with the Kurdistan Region was only valid until the liberation of the city. Kurdish journalist Rezan Hamo told ARA News that the Peshmerga departure from Kobane was also caused by the desire of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) --politicianship of the YPG forces-- "to hold power in Syria's Kurdish region and due to their apparent fear of a strong competitor like the Peshmerga in the region". The war-torn city of Kobane was invaded by IS jihadists in September and most of the city was destroyed before its liberation by the Kurds last February. |
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