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Baghdad praises the Peshmerga’s response to the "Kurdistani" on the eve of Al-Kazemi's visit to Ankara Baghdad Mohamed Ali December 16, 2020 Picture Forces from the "Kurdistani" attack the "Peshmerga" from the Syrian territories (Getty) Hours before the expected visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to the Turkish capital, Ankara, at the head of a high-ranking ministerial and security delegation, tomorrow, Thursday, to discuss a set of common files between the two countries, the Ministerial Council for Iraqi National Security, headed by Al-Kazemi, issued a statement praising the response of the forces. The peshmerga , which is affiliated with the Iraqi Kurdistan region , was attacked by armed elements of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the “Fishkhabour” triangle, the Iraqi, Syrian and Turkish, during which the militants tried to enter from the Syrian side into Iraq through the Kurdistan region. A statement by Al-Kazemi's office stated that the latter headed a meeting of the National Security which discussed the serious assault on the national borders in the Sahliah-Fishkhabour region, adding that "armed groups attempted from inside the Syrian territories to bomb our borders and the areas of presence of the Kurdistan Regional Guard (Peshmerga), and Iraqi border forces In order to enter and practice smuggling people and weapons. " The statement valued "the courageous response to these attempts by the Peshmerga forces supported by the Federal Armed Forces, and the Prime Minister directed to take all necessary legal measures through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and through diplomatic channels to prevent the recurrence of violations." Earlier in the day, Wednesday, the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Peshmerga Serbast Zakin announced that fighting broke out, at dawn on Wednesday, at the international border between Iraq and Syria, between its forces and PKK militants who tried to infiltrate into Iraq within the Kurdistan region. He explained that those militants "tried to illegally infiltrate into the Kurdistan region at night, and when they were spotted by the guard forces, and after making sure that they were not civilians, they were prevented from advancing, and they were asked to retreat, but they returned with force ... and attacked a Peshmerga point in the area using All kinds of heavy weapons, and the fighting lasted for more than an hour and a half, and the Peshmerga forces were forced to defend themselves, and (the attacking force) tried to seize the Peshmerga point, but it was unable to achieve its goal, and lost it back to the Syrian border. " This took place in the well-known regions of Sahila and Bishapur in the Kurdistan region. For his part, the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, Masrour Barzani, demanded this evening, Wednesday, the international coalition led by the United States to ensure that the "People's Protection Units" attacks on the territory of the Kurdistan region are not repeated, "using the international aid provided to them." Barzani explained that, "last night, a group of PKK militants tried to infiltrate into the Kurdistan region from Syria illegally, in contravention of our regulations, laws and border protection laws, and our security forces prevented them." The statement said: "Later, a force affiliated with the People's Protection Units attacked the Peshmerga barracks with heavy weapons, responded immediately and repelled the YPG attack." "By using foreign aid to attack the Kurdistan region. Of course, a repeat of any such attack will inflict a lot of damage on the security of the region." The clash between the Peshmerga forces of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, at dawn on Wednesday, and the PKK militants is the third of its kind in less than one month, and resulted in the death of a Peshmerga officer and the injury of others in these confrontations, which observers confirm that it threatens to explode confrontations between the two sides in any time. The expert on Iraqi Kurdish affairs, Muhammad Aqrawi, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed that the Kurdish armed groups in Syria recently joined forces with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which opposes Ankara, in provoking the Kurdistan region of Iraq. He added that the region at the same time is trying to avoid confrontations and enter any Kurdish-Kurdish fighting, although there is a process of occupation and seizing control of lands in the Kurdistan region and removing it from the ground up from the control of Erbil and thus Baghdad’s control, pointing out that the alignment of the Syrian Kurds with the Kurdish militants can be controlled from During the international coalition that has influence on the Syrian Kurdish arena, but for the PKK militants, they follow a confrontational policy with the region and confrontations may erupt at any time. He suggested that Erbil would tend to accept the entry of federal forces from the Iraqi army to reinforce the points of contact between them and the Workers' Party as a means of deterrence, especially in the areas of Fishkhabur, where the Syrian-Turkish-Iraqi triangle is the hottest in the recent tension, and which is considered a crossing point for smuggling various materials, including oil, for the benefit of groups. Syrian Kurdish.