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"Joint control" to secure the Kirkuk-Erbil road

   
 

 
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07/8/2018 12:00 am 

Protecting energy transfer towers 
Baghdad / Sabah / Kirkuk / Nahdet Ali 

In order to fully secure the Kirkuk-Irbil route, the security forces are preparing to establish a joint control after the construction of the concrete bridge near the Elton Kubri area, with full protection for the power transmission towers and the functional technical warehouses.

At the same time, the security services continue their security operations to kill and arrest al-Daash in a number of areas of the country. 
"An initial meeting between the federal and regional forces, headed by Assistant Commander of Joint Operations, Lieutenant General Abdul Amir Yarallah, has reached a proposal to establish joint control between the two sides after the construction of the concrete bridge near the Elton Cobri area," an official security source told AFP. The flow of traffic and commercial traffic of citizens in the Kirkuk-Erbil road after opening on the basis of the agreement that happened last week. "
For his part, the 56th command of the popular crowd, Hussain Ali Najm, told Al-Sabah that "the security forces have taken quick measures to deploy pieces along the streets leading to the agricultural areas with vast areas where the towers of power transmission and transformers are located. Terrorist acts by the terrorist gangs of al-Dahesh. " 
"The gangs are using the security vacuum because there are not enough troops to cover the large areas, especially as there are places that help them to hide according to the geographical nature," he said, adding that "the security forces continue the pursuit and search for them." 
In addition, the Interior Ministry said in a statement received "morning", a copy of it, that "
The statement said that "this terrorist admitted to fight against the army and the army and the Peshmerga, including fighting in the village of Bashir and the village of Albu Mufrj," asserting at the same time that "the necessary legal measures have been taken  
against him." 
On the Mosul, the statement pointed out that "the Office of the Crime Prevention Committee of the Directorate of the Crime Prevention of Nineveh Police and on the basis of intelligence arrested six members of the gangs of Daash terrorist issued arrest warrants under Article 4/1 terrorism, who were working as fighters in the ranks of Dahesh Criminal days of his control over the city of 
 Mosul. " 
"They were arrested in the role of the station on the right side of the city of Mosul," he said.
Al-Anbar, where the spokesman of the Center for Security Information Brigadier Yehia Rasool said in a statement that "the detachments of the Directorate of Military Intelligence in the First Division and in cooperation with the National Security and based on accurate intelligence was able to find a pile of hardware cache in a large underground buried underground in the area Dabaa south of the wetlands in Anbar province. " 
The statement said that "65 artillery shells, 35 mortar rounds, a number of explosive devices of different sizes and a number of 14.5 mm machine guns were seized inside the 
stack."

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Barzani: Relations between Baghdad and Arbil returned to normal

01:06 - 07/08/2018

 
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The President of the Kurdistan region and the former leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, on Tuesday, the return of relations between the governments of Baghdad and Arbil to normal. 
Barzani said in a speech to a segment of the youth of his party, followed by / Mawazin News, "The relations between the governments of the Center and the region returned to normal, and will work to strengthen it with all our energies." 
He added that "no veto on anyone, and we have observations but do not reach the limit of rejection," echoing "our terms of the alliance is partnership and consensus in parliament and the balance of the joints of the state." 
The relations between Baghdad and Erbil tension after the Kurdistan region, the referendum on secession from Iraq, and then announced the federal government on law enforcement operations in the disputed areas.

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Nizirvan Barzani: Elections on time .. ready to export Kirkuk oil .. This is our position on sanctions against Iran

In a press conference following a meeting of the provincial government

 
 

 07/08/2018 - 14:11

 
 
Nizirvan Barzani: Elections on time .. ready to export Kirkuk oil .. This is our position on sanctions against Iran
 

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani announced on Tuesday the holding of parliamentary elections in Kurdistan on the scheduled date. He pointed out that the federal government did not object to the contract between the region and the Russian company Rosneft. He pointed to the intention of the provincial government to prepare a financial budget for the coming year, Revealing that the region's readiness to export Kirkuk oil.

Barzani said in a press conference held after the meeting of the Council of Ministers in Erbil, and attended by Basnews correspondent, "This year is not like previous years, we have more financial stability," noting that "the KRG is determined to prepare the budget in 2019.

The Kurdistan region is facing a financial crisis for several years because of the cut off of Baghdad's share of the budget and the war against terrorism and low oil prices globally and the region received hundreds of thousands of displaced people and refugees.

On the problem of electricity shortage, Barzani said that "in the future we will see a marked improvement in the supply of electricity in the Kurdistan Region."

Barzani also revealed that the federal government did not object to the contract between the Territory and the company "Rosneft" Russian, stressing his offer to Baghdad to export Kirkuk oil through Kurdistan.

Barzani said that "the contract with Rosneft is a commercial issue," saying that "the contract is concluded within the framework of the Iraqi Constitution, which gave the Kurdistan Region the right to explore and export oil." Adding that the difference or problem of the Kurdistan Region with the federal government in Baghdad in terms of the contract concluded with that company.

And on the export of oil province of Kirkuk (the most prominent Kurdish areas outside the administration of the Kurdistan region) or the so-called (disputed) between Erbil and Baghdad, said that "Baghdad can not export oil province," noting that "we told Baghdad that we are ready to export Kirkuk oil, (Sumo) to collect financial revenues abroad. "

Pointing out that "Baghdad has not responded to the proposal so far."

"The United States sanctions against Iran are not yet clear for Kurdistan," 
he said, adding that "the position of the region will naturally be within the framework of the official position of Iraq."

"We have asked the United States to send a delegation to the Kurdistan Region to clarify the impact of sanctions under the economic embargo on Iran."

The Iraqi President Fuad Masum said that the circumstances of Iraq and the nature of its relations with Iran make it difficult for him to abide by the implementation of sanctions imposed by Washington on Tehran. 
The first package of US sanctions against Tehran began at dawn on Tuesday and according to US officials, the United States would not grant exemptions or exemptions from the sanctions, but would consider any requests individually.

President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, stressed that the Council of Ministers of the region stressed the holding of elections of the Parliament of Kurdistan on schedule by the end of September, denying the existence of a request from the United States of America to postpone. "It was confirmed during the meeting that the elections should be held on time and we hope that they will be successful," he said.

And on what is reported about the request of the envoy of US President to the international coalition, Brett McGurk to postpone the elections in Kurdistan, Barzani said, "There is no such request, and met him (McGurk) previously and we have been informed that the elections will take place on time."

He said Barzani, saying that "so far did not ask any party in the Kurdistan region to postpone the elections and the Kurdistan Democratic Party confirmed the conduct on time."

The Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani, in turn denied on Tuesday during a speech at the conference of the Kurdistan Democratic Youth Union, the US presidential envoy has made such a request during a meeting with him recently, explaining that the issue of holding the elections is not internal.

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  • yota691 changed the title to Baghdad decides to pay the salaries of employees in the region before Eid al-Adha
Date of release: 2018/8/8 22:43 • 296 times read
Baghdad decides to pay the salaries of employees in the region before Eid al-Adha
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The former agent of the Iraqi Finance Ministry, Fadel Nabi, said on Wednesday that the Iraqi government will send a sum of 317 billion dinars to the Kurdistan region to pay the salaries of all employees of ministries in the government of the province before the Eid al-Adha.
He said in a press statement, "The Iraqi Ministry of Finance informed me that it will send the salaries of employees of ministries in the Kurdistan Regional Government before the Eid al-Adha, by sending 317 billion dinars to the Kurdistan Region." 
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Fadel Nabi: Baghdad will send 317 billion dinars

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Former Iraqi Finance Minister Fadhil Nabi announced on Wednesday that the Iraqi government will send an amount of 317 billion dinars to the Kurdistan Region before the Eid al-Adha, and the salaries of all employees of ministries in the Kurdistan Regional Government will be paid. 

"The Iraqi Ministry of Finance informed me that it will send the salaries of employees of ministries in the Kurdistan Regional Government before the Eid al-Adha, by sending 317 billion dinars to the Kurdistan Region." 

Referred to a source in the Ministry of Finance and Economy in the Kurdistan Regional Government, had reported to the network Roudao media earlier, that will be the distribution of salaries of all employees of the Kurdistan Region, in the event that the Iraqi government sent 317 billion dinars to the region. 

The Ministry of Finance has begun to distribute the salaries of staff of a number of ministries in the Kurdistan Regional Government, since the fifth of August this month, and continuing to pay the salaries of other ministries so far.

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The integrity of Kurdistan: the discovery of more than 1500 space retirees in special degrees

07:42 - 09/08/2018

 
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The Legal Department of the Integrity Commission in the Kurdistan region announced on Thursday the discovery of more than 1500 people referred to retire on special grades, noting that most of them do not have certificates of study and was not employed even for one day (astronauts). 
"The granting of government jobs is according to the testimony of the person," said director of the department, Mushir Rashid, in a leaflet on his Facebook page. "There are 1557 people who were awarded the highest grades and they have low certificates." 
"There are people who graduated from junior high school who were awarded special degrees and others who were granted the rank of expert at the start of their appointment by a government decision. Therefore, they have not been informed of integrity and these cases must be addressed," he said.
He pointed out that "even in the eighth cabinet reshuffle, a number of ministers have already themselves, but the Commission has stopped this," he said, pointing out "the spread of the phenomenon of university diplomas counterfeit so that a number of university professors obtained their certificates from Mosul in 2016 when Mosul was still subject For the occupation of the organization "Daash" terrorist. " 
"The Commission has verified the certificates of university professors and there were doubts about some 600 degrees of university professors, as there are university professors obtained their degrees from the University of Mosul in 2016 when Mosul was, however," he urged, so how the professor received a doctorate from that university That year? " 
He continued," The Commission demanded the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research to examine these certificates and send them to the Commission and the number of nearly 600 certificates. "

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Arab Tribes in Iraq announced Saturday that they reject the presence of Iran-allied IMIS Militias in Iraq, calling for the return of the Peshmerga forces to Kirkuk and all disputed areas. 

Muzahim al-Huwait, a spokesman for the Arab tribes, said that the IMIS must be withdrawn from the Nineveh Plain and held accountable for the crimes they committed against civilians.

He pointed out that the tribes has coordinated the withdrawal of IMIS' 30 Brigade from theNineveh Plain with the US-led coalition

 

 

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/30554/Iraq-s-Arab-tribes-seek-Iran-allied-IMIS-withdrawal-from-Nineveh-Plain

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  • yota691 changed the title to Near the opening of the road (Kirkuk Arbil)

Near the opening of the road (Kirkuk Arbil)

   
 

 
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 Erbil / Sundus Abdul Wahab It is hoped that the opening of Eid al-Adha days, the bridge of the province of Alton link between the provinces of Kirkuk - Erbil, in order to facilitate the movement of tourists from central and south to the Kurdistan region. "The work is continuing to complete the iron bridge in the direction of Alton link between the provinces of Kirkuk and Arbil for the opening before Eid al-Adha, so that tourists from the provinces of the south and center and Kirkuk to go to the provinces The region and vice versa, with all flexibility and ease, "noting that" the agreement came after several meetings by security officials and military leaders and technical committees of the Ministry of Housing and Construction in the central and regional governments. " 



He added that "work on the reopening of the Elton El Kefar bridge passes in two stages, the first reconstruction and repair of the damaged parts of the bridge, which needs a period of time about six to seven months and the second installed an iron bridge over the current bridge." 
For his part, the director of roads and bridges in Arbil, Honer Nuri, told "Sabah" that "the engineering and technical personnel continue to work to accelerate the construction of the temporary iron bridge on the bridge of Alton Capri," explaining that "it will be one-way and bear all weights of cars, Open during the Eid to receive tourists and tourist attractions and facilitate the movement of 
cars. " 
He said that "
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  • yota691 changed the title to Qubad Talabani: The economic crisis in Kurdistan will be resolved soon
 
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Deputy President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Qubad Talabani, on Sunday, that the economic crisis in the Kurdistan region will be solved soon, indicating that the government has taken effective steps to address those problems.

Talabani said in a speech during the opening of the University of Qaiwan in Sulaymaniyah, and attended by "Al-Ghad Press", "The problems that have been plagued by the Kurdistan region during the past years are now on the way to a solution," pointing out that "the financial and economic crisis suffered by the provincial government Because of the fall in oil prices and the war on the dysterious and the problems with Baghdad has negatively affected the Kurdistan, especially on the sectors of investment and services. " 

He added that "the government has taken serious and effective steps in addressing these problems and it is on the right path," noting that "the citizens of Kurdistan will soon hear that improvement."
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  • yota691 changed the title to A second phase of projects to restore stability in liberated areas of Kirkuk

A second phase of projects to restore stability in liberated areas of Kirkuk

   
 

 
 


14/8/2018 5:33 am 

 Kirkuk / Nahdha Ali Kirkuk is working on preparing a new project plan for implementation in the liberated areas at a cost of 18 billion dinars allocated within the second phase of the amounts of restoring stability of these areas, while the Ministry of Oil agreed to increase the quota (kaz) allocated to the owners of generators  . The assistant governor of Kirkuk Ali Hammadi for "morning" that the province's administration intends to prepare a new plan includes several strategic projects in the main service sectors, noting that the projects mentioned in the second phase of the restoration of stability of the liberated areas of 18 billion dinars. 


He added that the plan will be presented to the Ministry of Planning for approval, divided by 70 percent for ongoing projects and 30 percent for strategic projects and intervention in the provision of services that directly affect the daily life of the citizen including the main streets, rehabilitation and installation of water stations, as well as installation of mobile power stations (33 / 11k v) . 
Hammadi said that the first phase of the projects to restore stability included the implementation of 260 projects allocated 25 billion dinars, and divided between the liberated areas according to population ratios, to restore the main services such as electricity, water and schools. 
He pointed out that the administration of the province is taking measures to restore the amount of $ 50 million in the Bank of Erbil, was earmarked for the maintenance of the petrodollar budget and will contribute to fill the shortage of the operation and completion of several previous projects up to 302 projects in the city of Kirkuk and in the districts and districts, Advanced and the other parked and most of them 
Service projects. 
In another context, Hammadi pointed to the approval of the Ministry of Oil recently to increase the quota (kaz) allocated to civil generators at the request of the province administration because of the imbalance in the work of the electrical system as a result of sabotage and increased hours of operation of these generators, indicating that the increase of 10 liters, The rate of processing 25 liters after 15 liters, stressing that the province has issued instructions to force generators to operate hours when the power out.
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The Department of Retirement and Social Security in the province of Kirkuk, on Tuesday, the monument of the largest Iraqi flag and raise it on a government building to be the largest banner flying by a government department in the province. 

"Kirkuk today recorded the lifting of the largest Iraqi flag on the building of the Department of Retirement and Social Security of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and this flag is the largest and longest that is raised on the building of the Department in the center of Kirkuk." 

He added that 'work to raise the flag comes to express our love for the Iraqi flag and our love for the country and raising the flag came as a step and a desire of the Department to be the first circle to raise the Iraqi flag on its building,' noting that 'Kirkuk represents the spirit of coexistence between all components and the cornerstone of the unity of Iraq We believe that our love and faith are firmly rooted in Iraq and its people. '

He explained that 'the raising of the Iraqi flag is a catalyst for the rest of the government departments that must provide such a work symbolizes the unity and sovereignty of Iraq land and people'.

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Iraq Purges Kurdish Officials, Bans ‘Kurdish Phrases’ at State Gas Company

16 Aug 2018
A picture taken on April 30, 2018, shows an electoral banner for the Iraqi Turkmen Front hanging beneath the flags of Iraq (L) and the Iraqi Turkmen (C) above a pedestrian crossing in the oil-rich and multi-ethnic northern city of Kirkuk AFP SABAH ARAR

The Iraqi government has removed 47 Kurdish officials from their posts in Kirkuk, beginning with the regional governor, since reasserting control over the disputed region in October 2017. The state-run North Gas Company, which operates in Kirkuk, banned the use of “Kurdish phrases” on Tuesday.

The Iraqi army, supported by Iran-backed Shiite militia units, moved into oil-rich Kirkuk in October and fought with Kurdish Peshmerga forces. The battle occurred about a month after the Kurds voted by overwhelming margins to secede from Iraq. The occupation of Kirkuk effectively ended Kurdish aspirations for independence, in part because the Kurds were dismayed by the lack of support from the United States and Europe.

The Kurds remain unhappy with the government in Baghdad and are acutely conscious of the systematic purging of Sunni Muslim Kurdish officials from Kirkuk posts by the Shiite-dominated central government. (As the Kurdish Rudaw news service pointed out on Thursday, the Iraqi government was “gentler” on Kurdish officials in majority-Shiite towns.)

 

Some high-ranking officials in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) continue to deal with the displaced Kurdish officials while ignoring the replacements appointed by Baghdad.

While there have been official denials of a deliberate purge in the Kirkuk region, Rudaw reports that a “secret order” issued by Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Aqil Mahmud Khaz Ali called for a massive turnover of local positions with the goal of deflating Kurdish plans for independence.

“Nowadays, Baath party laws have returned to Kirkuk,” Kirkuk provincial council member Ahmad Askari told Rudaw, referring to Saddam Hussein’s socialist political party.

“Neither the constitution nor the law has value in Kirkuk. They can do anything they want. They refill these positions with Arabs and Turkmen because they see that the KDP and PUK officials are not returning to the city. But they also remove Kurds who are still there in their positions,” Askari complained. 

 

KDP and PUK are the Kurdistan Democratic Party and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, respectively. The final president of Iraqi Kurdistan, Masoud Barzani, hails from the KDP. Barzani stepped down and dissolved the post of president after the independence referendum failed.

Rudaw quoted several Kurdish officials who said the security situation in Kirkuk has deteriorated since the Peshmerga was driven out and the Islamic State is making a comeback. Outside observers have criticizedBaghdad for not doing enough to quell the “low-level ISIS insurgency,” which has included a number of deadly bomb attacks.

In a letter sent to North Gas Company on Thursday, Iraqi Oil Ministry General Inspector Hamdan Ojail Rashid banned the use of “Kurdish phrases” in company correspondence and required the exclusive use of Arabic.

 

Kurdish parliamentarian Rebwar Taha branded Rashid’s order “illegal and unconstitutional,” pointing out that both Kurdish and Arabic are recognized as official languages in Iraq.

“We will have a serious say on this matter and this is not a way to protect the Arabic language,” Taha declared, vowing legal action against the order.

Kurdish officials insisted this week that Baghdad and the Turkish government must reach a deal with the KRG before exporting oil from Kirkuk to Turkey. The KRG managed such exports before the Iraqi military moved into Kirkuk in October. 

The dispute with Baghdad could become a bitter struggle for control of the pipeline to Turkey. The Iraqi government has expressed interest in building a new pipeline that would cross through less Kurdish territory, but Kirkuk Provincial Council head Rebwar Talabani stressed that it would be mutually beneficial for the Iraqi government to make a deal with the KRG to continue using existing facilities.

 

“Turkey and Iraq cannot take any steps regarding Kirkuk’s oil export without first reaching an agreement with the Kurdistan Region. The oil pipeline is completely under the control and protection of the Kurdistan Region,” said Kurdistan Regional Security Council adviser Bewar Khinsi.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo talked with both Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Kurdistan Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani on Tuesday. 

High on the agenda was a discussion of the massive protests in Baghdad and other cities by Iraqis angry at the poor standard of living provided by the Iraqi government 15 years after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Iraqi police have been criticized for using excessive force to break up the protests.

Barzani stressed to Pompeo the importance of protecting minorities in northern Iraq, including Christians and Yazidis, who were driven from their homes and targeted for genocide by the Islamic State during its rule. 

According to the U.S. State Department, Pompeo praised Barzani and Abadi for their “progress in resolving outstanding Baghdad-Erbil issues, according to the Iraqi constitution’s framework for dialogue,” and for recent joint operations against ISIS by Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters.

 

 

 

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/16/iraq-purges-kurdish-officials-bans-kurdish-phrases-state-gas-company/

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Date of release: 2018/8/16 15:01 • 190 times read
Financial Kurdistan issued an explanation on the distribution of salaries in the region
The Ministry of Finance and Economy in the Kurdistan Regional Government announced on Thursday that its banks will not disrupt on Saturday and Sunday to continue to distribute the salaries of retirees before the Eid al-Adha.
The Ministry said in a press statement received by the agency {Euphrates News} a copy of it today that "although the next Saturday and Sunday public holidays in government departments and institutions, but the banks of the Ministry of Finance and Economy will be officially in order to enable retirees receive their salaries before the Eid al-Adha "He said. 
"The distribution of salaries of retirees in the Kurdistan region will end the schedule that was set for the distribution of salaries by the ministry."
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Kirkuk - conscious

The Ministry of Electricity confirmed that the high-voltage electric transmission line (Arbil Center - Kirkuk) was exposed to a terrorist act of sabotage.

The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "a line with a capacity of (400 KV) was subjected to sabotage in the area of Jgmagha, Kirkuk, detonated explosive devices under the tower and tampering with the wire installation of the emergency tower in an attempt to topple him.

The statement said that "the staff of the General Company for the transfer of electric power in the northern region began maintenance work to avoid falling and the separation of the line."

The statement added that "this sabotage is the fourth that occurs on this line and in the same area and the same towers within a week." The ministry "security authorities to protect the lines from the ongoing sabotage, which caused great damage to the electrical power system in general and the northern region on In particular

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  • yota691 changed the title to Tomorrow reopens the road to Kirkuk, Arbil

Tomorrow reopens the road to Kirkuk, Arbil

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The police chief of Arbil, the reopening of the road link between Kirkuk and Erbil on Sunday. 

Abdul Khalef Talat, the police chief of Arbil, told "Khandan" that the road will be reopened in Kirkuk, Arbil, at nine o'clock tomorrow morning in the presence of officials from the Kurdistan region and Baghdad. 

The police chief of Arbil, said that the controls on the Kirkuk-Erbil road will be police and Asayish Kurdistan region and federal police.

 

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Officials expect to reopen Kirkuk-Erbil road ahead of Eid

August 17-2018     The time now is 02:24 AM

 

 

Expectations of re-opening the Kirkuk-Erbil road before Eid
Alton Bridge Bridge is located on the outskirts of Arbil governorate (photo: social networking sites)
 

Arbil (Kurdistan 24) - The Directorate of Roads and Bridges in Kirkuk completed the construction of the iron bridge in the town of Alton Cobri in a first step to reopen the road, which was closed since the clashes that broke out between the Peshmerga and Iraqi forces late last year.

"The highway will be reopened before Eid al-Adha on the 21st of this month," said Kirkuk road director Qaimaz Ali Moussa in a statement released on Thursday.

"The final work of the bridge will be completed on Friday and the road will reopen on Sunday," he said.

Traffic on the main road between Erbil and Kirkuk was cut off several months ago after the attack by Iraqi forces and ended with control of Kirkuk.

The move was a military response from Baghdad against the Kurds' historic independence referendum in September and won overwhelming support for independence.

The bridge, which lies in the middle of the road, was badly damaged by the clashes.

After several meetings between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the federal government, the two sides agreed to build a temporary iron bridge to restore the traffic to the road until the reconstruction of the bridge.

The current steel bridge is 32 meters long and seven meters wide, according to the Roads and Bridges Administration.

All cars will be allowed to pass through, except for large trucks.

The bridge will facilitate travel for Iraqis and tourists ahead of Eid al-Adha, as well as help resume trade and cargo shipments between Erbil and Baghdad.

Two checkpoints are expected to be built in the area, where Peshmerga forces will search for those entering Irbil while federal police will inspect people entering Kirkuk.

The Erbil-Kirkuk road is one of the strategic routes for Iraqi and Kurdish travelers who travel between governorates in the south and the north.

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  • yota691 changed the title to Meeting between the delegations of the federal and the region .. waiting to obtain the Prime Minister's decision to open the Kirkuk-Irbil road on tomorrow

Meeting between the delegations of the federal and the region .. waiting to obtain the Prime Minister's decision to open the Kirkuk-Irbil road on tomorrow

August 18, 2018 at 5:26 pm

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Kirkuk, 18 August 2018, a meeting between two delegations from the federal government and the Kurdistan Region in Elton Bridge, portraying Omar Jawad

 

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Held on Saturday, a meeting of the delegation of the Iraqi government and another of the Kurdistan Regional Government, in the area of Elton Kubri, and agreed to wait for the achievement of the decision of the Iraqi Prime Minister and joint operations to open the road link between Kirkuk and Erbil on Sunday.

According to a security source in the province of Kirkuk (Kirkuk Na): The meeting was held between the two delegations of the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government in the direction of Alton Kubri (north of the city of Kirkuk) to open a link between the provinces of Kirkuk and Erbil.

He explained that the government delegation included a representative of the Office of the Prime Minister and Director of Planning under the leadership of joint operations Major General Abdul Hussein Mohammed and Commander of the headquarters of the federal police Major General Shaker Kuin, while the Kurdistan Regional Government Dr. Farhad Nematullah and the police chief Arbil, Major General Talaat Abdul Khaliq, And Peshmerga leaders.

The source pointed out that the two delegations were briefed on the work of the iron crossing completed and the control site of the federal forces, and agreed to wait for the decision of the Iraqi prime minister and joint operations to open the road tomorrow at 10 am.

Agreed to wait for the decision of the Iraqi prime minister and joint operations to open the road tomorrow at 10 am.

The government delegation also visited the proposed sites for the establishment of the points of traffic on the road Arbil - Kirkuk on the one hand, and Kirkuk - Sulaymaniyah on the other.

The technical teams are renovating the Elton Bridge bridge on the Kirkuk-Erbil road and closed since the events of October 16, 2017.

The source revealed on Friday, a vigorous effort to open the bridge and the road link between Kirkuk and Erbil before the Eid al-Adha.

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  • yota691 changed the title to Baghdad and the Kurdish region restore ground transport
 
 

BAGHDAD, Aug 19 (Petra) - Iraqi authorities on Sunday reopened the road link between Kirkuk and Arbil after a halt due to the referendum of the Kurds. 
An Iraqi security source told the Jordanian News Agency (Petra) in Baghdad that the road was officially opened today by the Iraqi authorities, to conduct the land trade movement between Baghdad and the Kurdish region. 
The source added that a joint control was put up near the bridge (Elton Bridge) after the road was ready to move back and forth. 
The road has stopped working since the announcement of the referendum on the independence of the Kurds, and the entry of Iraqi forces instead of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces on October 16 last. 
- Petra (Petra) / b / c / 19/08/2018 13:41:41

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  • yota691 changed the title to Will the joint security cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil facilitate the return of the Peshmerga to the disputed areas?
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Will the joint security cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil facilitate the return of the Peshmerga to the disputed areas?

22/08/2018

 

Hamdi Malak

The disputed areas in Iraq are witnessing changes in the security forces' plan in recent times, where indications indicate the return of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces to them, which changes the map of forces in these sensitive areas in the country.

Work began on 9 August on the establishment of a joint security point between the Federal Security Forces and the forces of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq in the first joint security action between the two sides since the federal forces took over the disputed areas in October 2017. The Agreement An iron bridge was erected on the main road between Erbil and Kirkuk, which bridges the two sides of the road, and was destroyed as a result of Iraqi forces advancing towards the disputed areas in the events of 16 October. The agreement is intended to create a joint security point along the route, near the city of Alton Kubri, in order to open the road for the first time since it was interrupted more than a year ago, after bloody clashes between the federal forces and Kurdish forces in the Elton Kubri. It is hoped that the road will be opened before Eid al-Adha on the 21st of this month.

"There have been several meetings between the Kurdish and federal sides in the cities of Kirkuk, Baghdad and Alton Bridge to reach a common formula in this area," said Commander of the Kurdish elite forces in the Kirkuk axis, Major General Salar Taymour.

"It is decided to inspect the wheels and personnel coming from Kirkuk to Erbil by the Kurdish forces, but the wheels and personnel leaving Irbil towards Kirkuk will be inspected by the federal forces," he said.

One of the conditions of this agreement is that this point is maintained by the federal side of the local police forces and the federal police exclusively, as the Kurdish side insisted that there is no force from the Iraqi army or the anti-terrorism forces or popular mobilization at this point, according to Salar Timor. Moreover, the Kurdish side was assured that this point would not become a military barracks, but would remain a checkpoint to regulate traffic on the road.

Local media have reported that the United States is pressing Baghdad to begin military cooperation with the Kurdish side, including allowing the return of Peshmerga forces to the areas of Kirkuk, after deteriorating conditions, but the Iraqi government denied this.

"There is no pressure in this direction from the American side," said Dr. Michael Knights, senior researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

The United States suspended the agreement on behalf of Foreign Office Spokesman Heather Noyert on August 14, saying it was "normal".

Michael Knights, who advises the US Department of Defense on Iraq, went further, asserting the federal government's intention to allow Peshmerga troops to return to Kirkuk. "There is a lot of pressure on Iraqi forces," he said. Therefore, the Iraqi leadership intends to withdraw the Third Brigade Combat Terrorism / Golden Division of Kirkuk, since the presence of this highly effective force in this region limits its movement and can be utilized by other areas in need.

"So the Iraqi leadership plans to withdraw this force from Kirkuk. In turn, allow the Peshmerga forces to come to the areas of Kirkuk to help restore security.

The areas south of Kirkuk witnessed many security incidents in recent times, where terrorist forces have been able to destabilize the security of the road became the vital link between Kirkuk and Baghdad is very insecure.

He said Timor was the reason for the occurrence of these violations of the withdrawal of Kurdish forces from these areas, as these areas were held strongly before the events of October of 2017.

On the other hand, in a remarkable transformation, Badr, the largest faction in the popular crowd, announced its conditional approval for the return of the Peshmerga to Kirkuk.

"The Badr Organization, the north axis, does not mind the return of the Peshmerga forces to the province of Kirkuk, in accordance with the federal government regulations, and subject to the supervision of the leaders of the operations of the province, and the command of the organization" Badr "- North Branch Muhammad Mahdi al-Bayati, on 14 August. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces ".

However, the return of the Kurdish forces to Kirkuk and its parties to face considerable opposition from several quarters in the country, the Turkmen Front in various statements strongly opposed such movements, and confirmed the head of the Front Arshad Salehi that the Peshmerga forces intend to return to the city of Kirkuk and the Front rejects this Step definitively.

For its part, the parties in the popular crowd oppose this return and is a betrayal of the blood of the martyrs, especially since the announcement of joint coordination between the two sides in Elton Kubri coincided with the announcement of the withdrawal of popular mobilization forces from areas in Nineveh province.

"I have told you, our group has betrayed us, and the Peshmerga will return," said the senior leader of the Imam Ali Brigades, close to Iran, Abu Azrail, in a recording posted on August 13 on social networking sites.

These transformations will change the balance of power once again in these areas, after they have become in favor of the central government, but opposition from several sides to the return of Kurdish forces predicts the continuation of conflicts in the disputed areas, especially the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.

 

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Arabs Kirkuk: We will not accept the return of the Peshmerga to the province .. And expose the conspirators

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The security committee of the Kirkuk council on Friday rejected a compromise on law enforcement in the province and threatened to expose anyone who agrees with the Kurdish parties to return the Peshmerga to Kirkuk. 
"We, as representatives of the Arabs of Kirkuk, refuse to compromise, renounce and conspire on the law enforcement plan for the return of the Peshmerga to the province and gain political gains," said Burhan Mezher al-Asi, vice-chairman of the committee. To hold suspicious agreements with the Kurdish parties in order to hit the success of the plan to impose the law and weaken the security establishment and turn the clock back to harm Arabs and Turkmen.
He added that "what has been achieved in Kirkuk cemented the unity of Iraq and restored to the security establishment prestige and make Kirkuk enjoy a great security not seen since 2003." He refused to "subject Kirkuk and its national cause to negotiations and bargains for political and material gains. 
One of the conditions of the Kurdish parties to join the rest of the blocs to form the largest bloc in parliament, is the return of Peshmerga forces to the province of Kirkuk

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The Security Committee of the Council of Kirkuk, on Friday, rejected the return of Kurdish Peshmerga forces to the province .


"We, as representatives of the Arabs of Kirkuk, refuse to compromise, renounce and conspire to impose the law for the return of the Peshmerga to the province and gain political gains," said Burhan Mezher al-Asi, vice-chairman of the committee. "We are threatening to expose every political party or people acting To hold suspicious agreements with the Kurdish parties to hit the success of the plan to impose the law and weaken the security establishment and turn the clock back to harm the interests of Arabs and Turkmen .

He added that what has been achieved in Kirkuk cemented the unity of Iraq and restored the security institution prestige and make Kirkuk enjoy a great security not seen since 2003, refusing to subject Kirkuk and its national, regional and international issues to any negotiations and bargains for political and material gains price of unity of Iraq and security and stability of the province .

It is noteworthy that one of the conditions of the Kurdish parties to join the rest of the blocks to form the largest bloc in parliament, is the return of the Peshmerga forces to the province of Kirkuk .

 
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