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Federal forces control Mosul Dam and border crossings 19/10/2017 12:00 am The continuation of law enforcement and the extension of state authority Baghdad / Al-Sabah / Shorouq Maher The federal forces continue all their formations and non-stop the implementation of law enforcement and the implementation of the Constitution throughout the country, has completed yesterday the imposition of control and security completely on all areas of the province of Kirkuk and raised the Iraqi media in the districts and sub-districts of Diyala and Nineveh after the withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces and the entry of military units It also re-deployed in vital locations and other areas to reach the towns bordering Syria's border northwest of Mosul. Border crossings seized On Wednesday morning, the federal forces took over their duties in the Rabia area adjacent to the border with Syria north-west of the province of Nineveh, which includes an important border crossing. A security official said Iraqi army forces had received the Rabia area without any clash as free of the Peshmerga elements, which withdrew on Sunday from the predominantly Arab region. The withdrawal of the Peshmerga comes within a series of withdrawals from the so-called disputed areas of Nineveh province. Correspondent "Sabah" quoted Captain in the federal police Haider Araji confirmed that the federal forces of the 71st brigade of the 15th Division raised the Iraqi flag over the port of Rabia border after the force reached yesterday to the area of Rabia and re-seized it again and began to deploy fixed and mobile units in it as well as I received the border post, despite being closed. This coincided with the control of the federal forces on two border crossings with Iran, according to an Iranian news agency quoted a local source as saying: These forces lifted the Iraqi flag yesterday morning crossing the Khosravi border with the Iranian province of Kermanshah, after the imposition of control on Tuesday At the Parviz Khan crossing and dropped the flag of Kurdistan from them. Plug Mosul and Khazar At the same time, the Iraqi army colonel Yunis al-Obeidi told us that an army force of a full regiment arrived at the Mosul dam, 40 kilometers north of Mosul, and that it was deployed in the dam's facilities. The units were distributed according to a joint plan with the Peshmerga forces. The regiment receives the western side of the dam, which extends from the basin of the dam to the control of Faw towards Zammar area, northwest of Mosul, while the Peshmerga received the eastern side of the dam, which extends to the village of Badriya north of Mosul. In an interview, Lt. Col. Anwar al-Hayali said that the Peshmerga forces withdrew their last control in Al-Khazer area east of Mosul towards Arbil for a distance of 2 km within the borders of the region, pointing out that the withdrawal was according to new understandings and that the Peshmerga started to establish another control of the sheds and the transfer of private caravans Out. The control of Khazar last point of the borders of the Kurdistan region of the province of Arbil towards Mosul. Drunken and Batnaya The police chief of the Makhmour district, Col. Hani al-Surji, told us that joint units of the army, the local police and the Peshmerga were deployed in the streets of the district, southeast of Mosul, and that the situation has returned to normal. For his part, the chief of operations information in Mosul, Major Imad Hussein, the entry of the Babylon Brigades of the Popular Popular Front and security forces to the town of Batnaya, a majority Christian within the district of Talif (20 km north of Mosul). Kirkuk and around and on the latest position on the situation in Kirkuk .. The commander of the law enforcement operations in the province, yesterday the completion of the imposition of control and redeployment in the remaining areas of Kirkuk, indicating that this included the district of Debbs and the area of the Forum and fields Khabbaz and Bay Hassan North and South Oil. It added that the area of Khanaqin and Jalula in the northern province of Diyala has been redeployed and controlled in addition to the completion of the control and control of Makhmour, Baqiqa, Mosul, Oweinat, Sinjar, Rabia and some areas in Nineveh plain. A local source in Nineveh province said that the main road between Mosul and Erbil was reopened yesterday, adding that the Peshmerga elements removed the earthmounds and reopened the link between the two provinces. He said that the Peshmerga forces last Monday closed the road between Arbil and Nineveh and prevented the passage of citizens and cars between the two sides through the construction of a dirt cover in the area of Shaquli. Security Diyala areas In Diyala stressed the police leadership of the province, that will immediately arrest all those who harm the Iraqi national flag and the Kurdish media, stressing the issuance of a series of strict instructions in the disputed areas to reassure all components.