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Iraqi army seizes more territories in Anbar's desert

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

Over one hundred houses in western Anbar town are still booby-trapped, a mayor from Anbar from the province was quoted saying on Tuesday. “There are more than 135 booby-trapped houses in sporadic regions in Rawa town,” Hussein Ali, the mayor, told AlSumaria News. “Efforts are still being made to detonate these houses at the lowest amount of losses.” “Army troopsRead more

Iraq’s Abadi threatens to use force against Kurds

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered a 24-hour halt to military advances in order to allow for deployment of federal forces. He stated that the 24-hour halt will allow a “joint technical team of the federal and regional forces to work on the ground to deploy Iraqi federal forces in all disputed areas, in Fishabur, and the international borderRead more

Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga start new round of talks

BAGHDAD - Muslimchronicle

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters on Sunday started a second round of talks to resolve a conflict over control of the Kurdistan region’s border crossings, Iraqi state TV said. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi on Friday ordered a 24-hour suspension of military operations against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq. The two sides held a first round of talks onRead more

Iraq sets deadline for Kurds

Baghdad - Muslimchronicle

Iraqi forces set a tight deadline Friday for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from an area on the Turkish border that is critical for oil exports, a government source told AFP. The senior security source, asking not to be named, said Kurdish peshmerga fighters were being given "a few hours" to pull out of the area around the Fishkhabur border post.Read more

Peshmerga retreat amid international efforts to defuse tensions

Koya - Muslimchronicle

Colonel Ahmad al-Jubouri, commander of the Iraqi army’s Nineveh Operations Command, said Peshmerga forces withdrew from the center of the Makhmur district, south of Erbil, after receiving orders to do so few hours after they seized control of wide parts of it, the Anadolu Agency reported. Meanwhile, following deadly clashes between Iraqi forces and Peshmerga forces, the international community seemsRead more

Nearly 30,000 Kurds displaced from city near Kirkuk -aid groups

Bagdad - Muslimchronicle

Nearly 30,000 Kurds have been displaced from a multi-ethnic city south of Kirkuk where sectarian tension flared after Iraqi forces took control of it, humanitarian organizations said on Wednesday. Most of those displaced from Tuz Khurmato are in need of urgent aid and staying in open shelters, officials from two international humanitarian organizations told Reuters. A third, Amnesty International, saidRead more

Peshmerga uses German missiles against Iraqi forces

Baghdad - Najla Al Taee

The Iraqi military on Friday said the Kurdish Peshmerga forces used German rocket in fighting against Iraqi federal forces at a disputed area in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk. Meanwhile, German capital of Berlin witnessed dozens of demonstration to express solidarity with Kurds calling the Iraqi government for suspending its military campaign against them. A statement by the media officeRead more

Iraqi forces complete takeover of Kirkuk province after clashing with Kurds

Iraq - Muslimchronicle

Iraqi forces took control on Friday of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk still in the hands of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters following a three-hour battle, security sources said. The district of Altun Kupri, or Perde in Kurdish, lies on the road between the city of Kirkuk — which fell to Iraqi forces on Monday — and Irbil,Read more

Clashes as Iraq army takes last Kurd-held area of Kirkuk province

Kirkuk - Muslimchronicle

Iraqi forces clashed with Kurdish peshmerga fighters Friday and retook control of the last sector of the disputed province of Kirkuk, with a general killed in the fighting, security sources said. "Police, counter-terrorism units and the Hashed-Shaabi (paramilitary forces) have retaken the Altun Kupri region," 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Arbil, capital of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, the Joint OperationsRead more