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Iraq announces the duration of the new US forces

 2019/10/23 07:43:21

 

Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari said on Wednesday that US troops withdrawing from northeast Syria to Iraq would leave the country within four weeks.
Al-Shammari's comments came after meeting in Baghdad with his US counterpart, Mark Esper, who arrived as Iraqi leaders were inspecting reports that the United States wants to increase the number of troops stationed in Iraq, at least temporarily.
The United States has no plans to leave those forces in Iraq "endlessly," he said, adding that he planned to talk to Iraqi leaders about the matter.
Al-Shammari said Esber traveled to Iraq at the invitation of the previous, and pointed out that the two sides agreed in talks on Wednesday, that US troops crossing from Syria "will pass" through Iraq, and then will leave within a period of no more than four weeks.
The Iraqi minister said that the planes, which will transport US troops out of Iraq, have already arrived.

https://www.shafaaq.com/ar/أمـن/العراق-يعلن-مدة-بقاء-القوات-الامريكية-الجديدة/

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Erdogan after meeting Putin: We reached a "historic" agreement on Syria

 

 

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reached an agreement he described as "historic" with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Syria.

Speaking at a joint news conference with Putin, Erdogan said after their meeting in the Russian city of Sochi that the main aim of the peace process is to get terrorists out of the region and to secure the return of Syrians to their territory.

Erdogan said that the memorandum of understanding, reached with Putin, provides for the withdrawal of the Kurdish "YPG" with its weapons from the region to a depth of 30 kilometers within a period of 150 hours starting midday on Wednesday, in addition to its exit from Tal Rifaat and Manbij.

The Turkish president said that his country hosts three million six hundred and fifty thousand Syrians, including three hundred and fifty thousand Kurds, in this context, Erdogan stressed the agreement
with the Russians, to take measures that will facilitate the voluntary return of Syrian refugees and prevent the infiltration of terrorists.

https://altaghier.tv/2019/10/23/أردوغان-بعد-لقائه-بوتين-توصلنا-إلى-اتف/

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US Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrives in Baghdad on an unannounced visit

by EditorArab and World News2 Hours ago

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit.

Esper is expected to meet with his Iraqi counterpart, Najah al-Shammari, and Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, to discuss the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, part of which has moved to Iraq. Surprise visit.

https://altaghier.tv/2019/10/23/وزير-الدفاع-الأميركي-مارك-إسبر-يصل-إلى/

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Just wondering if Iraq gave Iran a time table to get their troops out. What a bunch of idiots....

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Wednesday، 23 October 2019 04:01 PM

Iraqi defense minister gives US troops 4 weeks to leave Iraq

US troops withdrawing from northeastern Syria to Iraq are “transiting” and will leave the country within four weeks, Iraq’s defense minister said Wednesday.

Najah al-Shammari made the remarks to The Associated Press following a meeting in Baghdad with visiting US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who arrived as Iraqi leaders chafed over reports the US may want to increase the number of troops based in Iraq, at least temporarily.

Iraq’s military said Tuesday that American troops leaving northeastern Syria don’t have permission to stay in Iraq in a statement that appeared to contradict Esper, who has said that all US troops leaving Syria would continue to conduct operations against ISIS group from Iraq to prevent its resurgence in the region.

He later added that the troops would be there temporarily until they are able to go home, but no time period has been set.

Esper said earlier on Wednesday that the US has no plans to leave those troops in Iraq “interminably” and that he plans to talk with Iraqi leaders about the matter.
Al-Shammari said Esper traveled to Iraq based on an invitation from the Iraqis. In Wednesday’s talks, he said the two sides agreed that the American troops crossing from Syria are “transiting” through Iraq and will then head to either Kuwait, Qatar or the United States “within a time frame not exceeding four weeks.”

The Iraqi minister said the planes that would transport the American troops out of Iraq have already arrived.

Esper’s visit to Baghdad came a day after Russia and Turkey reached an agreement that would deploy their forces along nearly the entire northeastern border to fill the void left after President Donald Trump’s abrupt withdrawal of US forces from the area, a move that essentially cleared the way for the Turkish invasion earlier this month.

It was unclear Wednesday what that means for US forces.
Trump ordered the bulk of the approximately 1,000 US troops in Syria to withdraw after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated in a phone call that his forces were about to invade Syria to push back Syrian Kurdish fighters whom Ankara considers terrorists.

The pullout largely abandons the Kurdish allies who have fought ISIS group alongside US troops for several years. Between 200 and 300 US troops will remain at the southern Syrian outpost of Al-Tanf.

Esper said the troops going into Iraq would have two missions, one to help defend Iraq against a resurgence of ISIS militants and another to monitor and perform a counter-IS mission.

The US currently has more than 5,000 American forces in Iraq, under an agreement between the two countries. The US pulled its troops out of Iraq in 2011 when combat operations there ended, but they went back in after ISIS group began to take over large swaths of the country in 2014.

The number of American forces in Iraq has remained small due to political sensitivities in the country, after years of what some Iraqis consider US occupation during the war that began in 2003. Iraqi leaders may privately condone more US forces to battle IS, but worry if it’s widely known that there will be backlash from the citizens.

US troops in Syria fought for five years alongside Kurdish-led forces in northeast Syria and succeeded in bringing down the rule of IS militants — at the cost of thousands of Kurdish fighters’ lives. Under the new agreement, much of that territory would be handed over to US rivals.

The biggest winners are Turkey and Russia. Turkey would get sole control over areas of the Syrian border captured in its invasion, while Turkish, Russian and Syrian government forces would oversee the rest of the border region. America’s former US allies, the Kurdish fighters, are left hoping Moscow and Damascus will preserve some pieces of the Syrian Kurdish autonomy in the region.

https://www.thebaghdadpost.com/en/Story/44433/Iraqi-defense-minister-gives-US-troops-4-weeks-to-leave-Iraq

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Refugee arrivals to Iraq pass 7,000 mark in seven days

 

 

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Andrej Mahecic – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.

 

 

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A recently arrived Syrian refugee mother and child at Bardarash camp in Duhok, Iraq.  © UNHCR/Hossein Fatemi

A week after first refugees crossed from northeast Syria into Iraq, the arrivals to northern Iraq continue. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, teams on the ground report that of this morning more than 7,100 have arrived since last Monday. Most of them - just under 7,000 - are sheltered at the Bardarash refugee camp, some 140 kilometres east of the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Most of the Syrian refugees come from cities and villages from northeast of Syria. Three out of four are women and children. There are unaccompanied children among the arrivals. Some refugees, especially children, require psycho-social first aid, and psycho-social support as they fled in fear in the midst of fighting. Some witnessed explosions and shelling. Refugees with relatives living in the area are allowed to leave the camp and join their families.

UNHCR and partners, together, with local authorities are providing a range of services that start from the border. These include reception, provision of hot meals, transportation to the camp, registration, shelter and protection services. Teams also conduct protection monitoring, child protection and identification of unaccompanied children and persons with specific needs, already at border reception centres.

The Bardarash camp has a water network, an electricity grid and a sewage system. These networks need expansion as more refugees arrive to the camp. The camp has a reception centre, a registration centre and storage units for humanitarian supplies. UNHCR partner, the local Board of Relief and Humanitarian Affairs, is in charge of camp management.

UNHCR is working with other aid agencies in support of the response led by the local authorities to deliver relief and services.

Prior to the latest arrivals, some 228,000 Syrian refugees have found shelter in Iraq, forced from their homes by more than eight years of conflict and destruction in Syria.

https://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/briefing/2019/10/5daeb9ed4/refugee-arrivals-iraq-pass-7000-mark-seven-days.html

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Masoudi: US implements a military plan in the Middle East

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The deputy of the coalition of Sairon Riad Masoudi, Thursday, that America is engaged in soft war in the region and began to rely on the masses in the chaos in various countries, pointing out that the visit of the US Secretary of Defense to Iraq was not for the US withdrawal from Syria and go to the western region, but It is to discuss the future of Iraq .

Masoudi said in a statement to the information, that "the movement that occurred in northeastern Syria is nothing but the re-industry map of this geographical area, where this represents a Russian-American axis while the interface is Turkey and Syria, and therefore the withdrawal of America and the entry of its troops to Iraq is what It is a measure to restructure the political base in the region. "

"The visit of US Defense Secretary Mark Esper to Baghdad came to discuss the future of Iraq and is not related to the subject of the 1000 fighters who withdrew from Syria towards Iraq, but to convey clear messages that American policy began in the other direction is political acts of military, and the first strike by America was the Kurds (SDF) when I removed the protective cover from them. ”

"America has kept its forces unannounced at the al-Tanf base and has detailed control over Iraq , Jordan and Syria, and controls this field, but Trump's policy is very clear as all the costs of US policy in the region are paid for by the Gulf states, particularly Saudi Arabia and the UAE," he said.

He stressed that "the new US policy focuses on the formation of mass popular movements that maintain the instability of countries, especially the so-called Shiite Crescent by moving the street in Lebanon and Iraq, and rely on the soft confrontation through which Washington seeks to achieve the greatest gains."

He pointed out that "America will be active at this stage politically and disappear militarily, and go towards the dissolution of military force in the region to avoid confrontation with armed factions in the Middle East and reach Libya, Tunisia and Algeria in the west and to Pakistan and Afghanistan in the east." Finished 25 N

https://www.almaalomah.com/2019/10/24/434142/

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Anbar mobilization reveals terrorists between Saladin and Nineveh

20:47 - 24/10/2019

  

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Anbar security source acknowledged on Thursday the presence of IS cells near the border between Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces.

The source said in a statement to the information that the desert areas extending from the borders of Anbar province towards Salah al-Din and Nineveh provinces contain cells of ISIS terrorist and in large numbers called security forces and the support of the army aviation to intensify military operations to track the cells of the criminal organization in that region to prevent "Any security breach."

"Intelligence has confirmed the presence of large numbers of ISIS terrorists in the desert areas linking the western regions to Salah al-Din and Nineveh provinces," he said, adding that there was a fear that their numbers would increase in conjunction with information that a large number of ISIS terrorist detainees had been released in Syrian prisons.

He said that "security leaders surveyed aerially those areas and acknowledged the existence of cells of ISIS criminal gangs in those areas hiding inside secret tunnels and additives." Ends / 12a

 

 

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America: Kurds must be represented in constitution and Hezbollah out of Syria

 

 2019/10/29 14:23:13

 

Washington will continue to target any economic support coming from Iran's Revolutionary Guards to Bashar al-Assad, US Deputy Envoy to Syria Joel Rebern said on Tuesday.

"The stability of Syria cannot be guaranteed unless the Iranian militias fully emerge from it," he said. To her and her neighbors and threatens the region. "

"Our policy in Syria is focused on getting ISIS and Iran out of it," he said.

He stressed the need to "get Hezbollah out of Syria completely," as "Hezbollah has become a gang to export Captagon pills to the world. Hezbollah runs a global drug network that exports products from Lebanon to other countries."

In a related context, he believes that Russia "can play a more active role to put pressure on Assad," saying that "Russia must play a positive role for the success of the work of the Constitutional Committee."

Regarding the issue of the Constitutional Committee, Ripburn stressed that Washington has a large team now in Geneva to keep up with the start of the work of this Committee, adding, "We believe that the Constitutional Commission is an important door to reach a political solution."

"There can be no political solution without knowing the fate of the detainees and kidnappers in the basements of Assad's intelligence."

He continued, "We do not support the representation of political parties in the Constitutional Committee, but different segments of the people. We believe that the people of northern Syria (Kurdistan Syria) should represent their demands in the new constitution."

On the ground, he explained, US forces in Syria "have full authority to defend themselves against any armed group there."

https://www.shafaaq.com/ar/عربي-ودولي/أميركا-يجب-تمثيل-الكورد-في-الدستور-وإخراج-حزب-الله-من-سوريا/

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Official: border with Syria safe and stable

13:52 - 01/11/2019

 

  

Information / Anbar

The governor of Anbar province, Ahmad al-Mahalawi, said on Friday that the border with Syria is safe and stable and there are no terrorist threats to break through the security barriers separating the border with Iraq .

Al-Mahalawi said in a statement that the security forces from the army, border guards, the Popular and Tribal Mobilization and the rest of the other security services have drawn up a tight plan to thwart any attempt to penetrate the security barriers of the military sectors after reinforcing them by the security leaders supervising the security file in the province.

"Reports of large numbers of ISIL terrorist cells in areas near the border with Syria west of Anbar are untrue," he said.

He added that "security forces have taken strict security measures on the border with Syria through the deployment of thermal surveillance cameras and barbed wire, as well as drones flying around the clock to monitor the movements of terrorist cells ISIS and thwart any attempt to infiltrate Iraqi territory from the western side of the country." Ends / 12a

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Rasul: ISIS terrorist gangs have lost hope of re-activating in the border areas with Syria

Date: 2019/11/1 14:02 • 3 times read

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Defense Ministry Information Brigadier General Yahya Rasoul said Friday that ISIS terrorist gangs have lost any hope of re-activating them in the border areas with Syria, especially after Iraqi forces completed securing the border with Syria through intelligence and field efforts.

Rasul said in a press statement: "ISIS terrorist gangs lost any hope of re-activation in the border areas with Syria after the death of terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," noting that "terrorist gangs tried to establish barracks, and repositioning in villages near the Iraqi-Syrian border However, according to a high intelligence effort and intensive air force, the joint forces have made the areas of western Nineveh, Qaim and Albukamal separating Iraq and Syria almost completely secure.
He added that "the intelligence success recorded by the Iraqi security services through the intelligence service and the intelligence cell hawks through the search for the leaders of Daesh terrorist gangs in the desert and border areas have failed all the plans that the terrorist gangs aspire to achieve after the military escalation between Turkey and Syria and the escape of its elements from the northeastern areas." Syria to the Iraqi border areas is confronted by the security measures and the ground, air and intelligence capabilities that the Iraqi side is now enjoying. "
He continued, Director of Information Ministry of Defense, "has been arrested many elements of ISIS fleeing and prevent the proximity of others who are trying to sequence by pursuing them before approaching them towards Iraqi territory."

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US Convoy In Syria Attacked By Turkey-Backed Militants: Russian MoD

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Sun, 11/03/2019 - 16:45

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Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced Sunday that a US military convoy came under attack by Turkey-backed militants in Syria.

"American troops heading toward the Iraqi border have been attacked from land held by Turkish-backed militants in northern Syria, Russia’s Ministry of Defense has claimed," according to a breaking report by RT.

Russian military sources, who have this week been seen in close vicinity with US troops amid a Pentagon draw down from border areas, reported no casualties as a result of the alleged incident. 

US convoy in northern Syria file image, via Zuma Press/WSJ 

 

Though the Pentagon did not immediately confirm the report, there's been increasing tensions between Washington and Ankara over proposed Congressional sanctions on Turkey, also as the 'US withdrawal' from northern Syria became in reality a mere 'partial' draw down with American forces redeployed to 'secure' oil fields in partnership with the Kurdish-led SDF. 

According to details from the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD), the American convoy was attacked near the town of Tell Tamer on the M4 highway, which runs parallel to the Turkish border near areas captured by pro-Turkish forces as part of 'Operation Peace Spring'. 

An official statement from the Russian MoD reads as follows:

“As part of deconfliction exchange, information has been received from the US side that on November 3 a convoy of American servicemen...was fired upon from the territory controlled by the pro-Turkish Syrian National Army.” 

This follows an incident last month which involved American troops in the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani coming under Turkish artillery fire.

Since Trump's declared US withdrawal from the border areas due to Erdogan's Turkish military incursion, American and Russian convoys have been seen passing each other on the roadways. 

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Subsequent to that mid-October incident Defense Secretary Mark Esper told reporters that US forces had permission to fire back if fired upon. 

Multiple media reports have lately documented the presence of former ISIS and al-Qaeda fighters swelling the ranks of Turkish-backed Sunni militias currently serving as the main ground force for Erdogan's 'Operation Peace Spring'.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-forces-syria-attacked-turkey-backed-militants-russian-defense-ministry

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Turkey’s Erdogan called out for endangering ‘US national security’

 

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Strong letter by House Foreign Affairs Committee members urges withdrawal of White House invitation

Residents of northeastern Syria are fearful and the humanitarian situation is a cause for concern

ERBIL, DUBAI: In a humiliating rebuke to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the lead-up to his visit to Washington, members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives have written a strong letter urging US President Donald Trump to withdraw the White House invitation.

The letter says Erdogan’s “decision to invade northern Syria on Oct. 9 has had disastrous consequences for US national security, has led to deep divisions in the NATO alliance, and caused a humanitarian crisis on the ground.”

The Congress members said: “Turkish forces have killed civilians and members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a critical US partner in the fight against (Daesh), and displaced over one hundred thousand people from their homes in northern Syria.”

The committee’s concerns are well founded. After weeks of instability and violence following the Turkish incursion, the situation in northeastern Syria remains tense despite the implementation of a ceasefire and an agreement between Russia and Turkey that compelled Kurdish-led SDF troops to withdraw from the border.

According to multiple sources, residents of this part of Syria are fearful for their future and the humanitarian situation is a cause for concern.

Since Turkey launched its assault, shortly after the US troop withdrawal from the border, approximately 180,000 Syrian civilians, primarily Kurds, have been displaced from their homes.

Turkey, with the help of its Syrian militia proxies, has carved out a large swath of territory — about 120 kilometers wide — that extends from Tal Abyad to Ras Al-Ayn (known by Kurds as Serekaniye).

On Oct. 31 at a gathering in Istanbul, Erdogan boasted that the “safe zones” were the most peaceful and livable places in Syria today. “We did not provide all these services with any expectation, but as our human and moral responsibilities,” he said, adding “when we look around, we see only humans, souls and life.”

Most Kurds of northeastern Syria see the situation very differently. In their view, what Erdogan has undertaken in the name of resettling millions of Syrian refugees in the so-called safe zone is a giant demographic-engineering exercise.

What has reinforced their suspicions have been incidents of Turkish-backed Syrian militias looting civilian homes and businesses, clips of which have flooded social media since the first days of the Turkish invasion.

Sounding a direct warning via Twitter, Mazloum Abdi, the SDF’s general commander, said: “There are efforts by Turkey to achieve its demographic-change goals in Northeast Syria through international organizations. The UN head’s willingness to form a team to study the proposal and engage in discussions with Turkish authorities on the issue is deeply worrying and dangerous.”

Dr. Nemam Ghafouri heads a charity called Joint Help for Kurdistan that is distributing humanitarian aid in the region. As someone who is familiar with the facts on the ground, she says “the humanitarian situation could not have been worse.”

She says because northeastern Syria has been practically under an embargo for years, “it’s very hard to find even the most basic items in significant quantities. Even finding and buying simple clothing for the displaced is very difficult and expensive.”

Ghafouri has talked to many people displaced from different areas. Some spoke of how they tried to return to their homes but the presence of the militias, whose roadside executions of Kurds have been filmed and posted on the web, acted as a deterrent.

Among the displaced Syrians Ghafouri spoke to were a pharmacist and a doctor from Ras Al-Ayn who tried to return to their homes.

“They told me about another pharmacist they knew who was arrested along with his son by these militias, who demanded a large ransom for their release,” she said. After being detained for eight hours, both were released without the ransom being paid. Instead, the militiamen “stole everything they could find in their home and their pharmacy.”

The general atmosphere, as inferred by Ghafouri, is one of “suffering and hopelessness.”

Alluding to the resettlement of Arabs on confiscated Kurdish land by Syrian President Hafez Al-Assad back in the mid-1970s, she said: “This is not the first time efforts have been made to change demographics.”

Ghafouri said that even today, on the road from Hasakah to Derik, “you can see where Arab villages have been built on the best agricultural lands in the region.”

On Oct. 24, in an interview to Turkey’s state broadcaster TRT, Erdogan came close to making the case for ethnic cleansing. “What is important is to prepare a controlled life in this enormous area, and the most suitable people for it are Arabs,” he said. “These areas are not suitable for the lifestyle of Kurds … because these areas are virtually desert.”

In actual fact, northeastern Syria, where the country’s largest Kurdish-majority areas are located, is also where Syria’s best agricultural lands happen to be. The region is often referred to as the country’s “breadbasket.”

Ghafouri believes the events of the past several weeks are “all about destroying the landscape and demography of the Kurdish regions for good,” adding: “It has been partially accomplished already.”

Besides Turkey, Russia and the Syrian regime have also sent troops to the Turkey-Syria border, but locals Ghafouri spoke to “don’t see the Russian deployment as a cause for hope.”

She said: “Despite feeling betrayed by America, people I’ve talked to there trust Russia even less. It seems that with Russian support, the Syrian regime has achieved what it wants — namely the ‘Arabization’ of predominantly Kurdish areas with the help of Turkey.”

In recent weeks, more than 14,000 Syrians have fled the conflict in the country’s northeast to neighboring Iraqi Kurdistan, which already hosts a huge refugee population.

Jotiar Adil, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), said the KRG “does not have the capacity to handle and care for a new wave of refugees coming across the border on its own.

“Therefore, we ask the international community to take a serious stance on this and assist us in sheltering and providing for these refugees.”

While the Russian-Syrian deployment along the border in northeastern Syria is expected to lessen the likelihood of a total Turkish takeover, the agreement with Russia permits Turkey to retain forces in Syrian territories under its control and states: “Joint efforts will be launched to facilitate the return of refugees in a safe and voluntary manner.”

Nevertheless, Joshua Landis, a Syria expert and head of the Middle East department at the University of Oklahoma, rules out the worst case scenarios, saying: “Erdogan’s resettlement plan is dead. The Russians will fight it and so will the Syrians. There may be some resettlement around Tal Abyad and Ras Al-Ayn, but beyond that, it is hard to imagine that right now. Even in this area, it is doubtful there will be any large-scale refugee resettlement.

“The situation will not be like in Afrin, where the Kurdish population could be chased out to make way for Arab refugees.”

However, the US lawmakers who have called on the White House to disinvite Erdogan believe “his calamitous actions in Syria follow a long list of disconcerting steps”.

Reminding Trump about the resolutions passed last month by the House warning of sanctions against Turkey, the statement said: “Given this situation, we believe that now is a particularly inappropriate time for President Erdogan to visit the US, and we urge you to rescind this invitation.”

 

 

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1583186/middle-east

 

Edited November 13, 2019 by Butifldrm

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Syria calls on the world to act to stop the Turkish president's "crimes" against its people

2019-11-21

 

 

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The Syrian government on Thursday condemned what it called "criminal attacks by Turkish occupation forces" against the Syrian people, calling on world public opinion to act to force President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to "stop his crimes immediately."

The agency quoted the official Syrian news agency , a source in the Ministry of # Foreign Affairs as saying that «his country condemns in the strongest terms the attacks perpetrated by the Turkish occupation forces against the Syrian people, the latest of which was the air strikes carried out by unmanned aircraft on residential neighborhoods in the countryside hand # Tl_owhit in # Raqqa , killing five civilians ».

The Hawar local news agency, which belongs to the Kurdish self-administration, said that «a civilian car was traveling in the family of a member of a village in rural Tal Abyad, which was controlled by Turkey in its recent military operation, had been bombed by a Turkish drone, causing the death 5 people ».

The official Syrian source, that «the Turkish regime and its forces and tools of terrorist organizations and mercenaries, continue to commit their crimes against the Syrian people, despite the agreements reached previously».

The Syrian source, that «Erdogan these practices, confirms that it is outside the international law, and that his intentions and actions based on occupation and aggression are the basis of all he does», according to the source's expression.

He continued by saying: that his country «pledges to defend its sovereignty in the face of attacks by the Turkish regime», calling on world opinion to act immediately in order to «force Erdogan to immediately stop his crimes against the Syrian people, which constitute a flagrant and serious violation of international laws and conventions and humanitarian».

The army launched the Turkish in the ninth of last month, a military offensive northeast Syria before reaching two separate agreements with # Washington and # Moscow last month, serving a cease-fire, after the withdrawal of # Qguat_soeria_aldemqratih that form # Alouhdat_alcardah strong president to a depth of 30 kilometers inside the territory Syrian.

https://iraq.7al.net/2019/11/21/سوريا-تدعو-العالم-للتحرك-من-أجل-وقف-جر/

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The overthrow of ISIS and the neutralization of others hiding inside a tunnel in Ain Jahsh

December 1, 2019

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The overthrow of ISIS and the neutralization of others hiding inside a tunnel in Ain Jahsh

Baghdad - Winner Jawad

 

Nineveh Operations Command announced the killing of a number of ISIS members who were hiding inside a tunnel in the province. "Based on accurate intelligence indicating the presence of a number of terrorist elements in the Ain al-Jahsh area, a joint force of the 21st Infantry Brigade, 20th Division and the Nineveh Swat Police Regiment searched and cleared the area," the command said in a statement. Two of them, wearing explosive belts, were forced out by the ISF and killed by the air force, while two air strikes were carried out by the coalition's international air force and the tunnel was destroyed and the elements in it were killed.) The Interior Ministry arrested a member of the organization and seized a factory for manufacturing containers in the province. A statement from the ministry's media said that a force from the Federal Intelligence and Investigations Agency seized a factory for manufacturing explosive devices belonging to ISIS in the province containing materials, equipment and seals belonging to the organization, noting that the force arrested an element that was inside the factory. Directorate of Intelligence and Counter - Terrorism of Nineveh. Security forces found amasses of equipment in his district. The statement pointed out that (detachments of intelligence of the Western Electricity Police operating within the Intelligence Agency and during the conduct of the field survey in the village of al-Khusfah eliminate him). Asayish Koljo's director died of his wounds. A source said in a statement yesterday that "the director of Asayiş Koljo near Kalar died of wounds caused by the attack that occurred by sniping and mortar shells." ISIS targeted three mortars, and after armed confrontations, the Asayish director of the district was wounded after being hit by sniper weapons. The head of the Kurdistan Regional Government Masrour Barzani has called on the international community to help Iraq and Kurdistan to deter terrorism. Barzani said in a statement, "We have received the news of the martyrdom of the Asayish director and two associates and the injury of several others in Kuljo district of Kufri district after the attack by ISIS on the district," adding that "the attack by ISIS shows that this organization has not completely defeated." We have warned of its danger and therefore the international community must help Iraq and Kurdistan to deter terrorism and eliminate the factors leading to its revival.) MPs from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) demanded an investigation into the killing of a family in the Haftgar district of Dakok. Barzani said in a statement, "We have received the news of the martyrdom of the Asayish director and two associates and the injury of several others in Kuljo district of Kufri district after the attack by ISIS on the district," adding that "the attack by ISIS shows that this organization has not completely defeated." We have warned of its danger and therefore the international community must help Iraq and Kurdistan to deter terrorism and eliminate the factors leading to its revival.) MPs from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) demanded an investigation into the killing of a family in the Haftgar district of Dakok. Barzani said in a statement, "We have received the news of the martyrdom of the Asayish director and two associates and the injury of several others in Kuljo district of Kufri district after the attack by ISIS on the district," adding that "the attack by ISIS shows that this organization has not completely defeated." We have warned of its danger and therefore the international community must help Iraq and Kurdistan to deter terrorism and eliminate the factors leading to its revival.) MPs from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) demanded an investigation into the killing of a family in the Haftgar district of Dakok.

In the meantime, the General Directorate of Traffic decided to reduce the official working hours at registration sites and holidays. The directorate said in a statement yesterday that (it was decided that the official working hours at registration sites and leave from eight in the morning until four o'clock in the afternoon because of the small number of reviewers in registration sites and holidays).

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Joint Operations: Our borders with Syria are fully secured

Monday 02 December 2019 59

 

Baghdad / morning

 

The joint operations confirmed on Monday that the Iraqi-Syrian border is fully secure, while a security source in Diyala province, the launch of a military operation on the outskirts of Koljo district on the border with the province of Sulaymaniyah. 

"I assure the Iraqi people that our army is present and stationed on the Syrian border," General Tahseen al-Khafaji, spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, told Conscious.

He added that «the border forces and the Popular Mobilization Forces stationed there and have the ability and potential», pointing out that «there is continued cooperation from the international coalition forces in the field of aerial reconnaissance».

Al-Khafaji said that «the Ministry of Defense installed thermal cameras and towers and barbed wire and earth blocks and was exploring the area and marching from the post towards Rabia».

And that «there is a reconnaissance flight and thermal cameras and there is a relationship between our army and coalition forces to exchange information on the presence of terrorists and prisoners under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces».

In the meantime, a security source in Diyala province, the launch of a military operation on the outskirts of (Koljo) on the border with the province of Sulaymaniyah.

The source said that «joint security forces of the Asayish and Peshmerga launched a large-scale military operation on the outskirts of Koljo area south of Sulaimaniya on the border with Diyala to track down the cells of ISIS terrorist gangs».

He pointed out that «the operation was expected days ago after the targeting of an Asayish force in Koljo by ISIS, which killed the security official and two of his companions in a serious development in a region that has been safe for many years».

He explained, that «the process is taking place from several axes and targeting agricultural areas and hills and valleys», noting that «the Koljo road towards Jalawla has been cut for security reasons until the completion of the process». 

In addition, the Interior Ministry managed to seize four rockets, a mortar and a materiel inside a house in Kirkuk.

A statement by the ministry, that «the detachments of the Federal Police Intelligence operating within the Intelligence Agency in the Ministry of Interior and after the receipt of intelligence information about the presence of weapons inside one of the houses in the area of Danum in Kirkuk "It is used for making containers, 22 rulers, sephor, fuse, wires, timer timers and a mug battery."