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Conflict between Iraqi Government and Kurdish KRG began to emerge on Mosul Takeover administration

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kurd-iraqi-confertationIraqi government forces have managed to liberate more areas around the northern city of Mosul as part of a massive offensive aimed at retaking the entire city from Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

Iraq’s Joint Operations Command (JOC) announced that security forces had liberated Qala region and taken control of Janin military base east of Mosul, located some 400 kilometers north of the capital Baghdad.

Commander of the Mosul Operations, Major General Najm al Jabouri, also said his forces established control over the villages of Saf al-Tuth and Nana on Wednesday, following a fierce exchange of gunfire with Daesh snipers.

Additionally, Iraqi armed forces welcomed more than 1,000 Iraqi refugees from the recently-liberated village of Shoura, located 40 kilometers south of Mosul.

The government forces are going to transport the internally-displaced people to a processing center and refugee camps within the next few days.

The prime minister of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region said Peshmerga forces will not enter Mosul in order to avoid the danger of a “potential ethnic conflict.”

Nechirvan Barzani, however, issued a veiled warning to the Iraqi central government, suggesting that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) wanted to take over the administration of Mosul after it was liberated.  

Mosul is of paramount significance to the KRG, he said, warning that the city would become the birthplace of another terrorist group if it is not administered well after liberation from the grip of Daesh extremists.

Iraqi artillery fire now hitting Daesh ISIS inside Mosul

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iraqi-artillery-mosulWith the start of the second week of operations aimed at liberating the northern Iraqi city of Mosul from Daesh, Iraq’s top anti-terror commander says military forces have started targeting the terror outfit’s positions inside the city with artillery fire.

Abdul-Ghani Asadi, the commander of the Iraqi army’s anti-terrorism contingent, made the announcement on Monday.

Iraqi forces have, meanwhile, liberated more than 70 percent of the territory lying to the south of the Daesh-held northern city of Mosul, and are weeding out explosives planted by the terrorist group on their way to the city proper.

On Tuesday, the joint military and volunteer forces liberated three more villages, located to the city’s south, from Daesh, the country’s war news media reported, with Tweeter pictures showing children rejoicing after the areas’ liberation.

Assisting the liberation operations, Turkish Peshmerga fighters also retook three more villages, namely Khoursabad in the Narwan region, Batnaya in the Tel Kaif district, and Assaf, all located around Mosul.

Security forces also took back a gas plant in Tal Kaif and entirely liberated the heart of the district.

Mosul-based Daesh militants have, meanwhile, filled up trenches with oil and set them on fire in order to block the overflying aircraft’s field of vision. In one incident, they threw nine of their defectors in one of the burning trenches in Mosul’s al-Arabi neighborhood, killing them.

Footage also showed a military Abrams tank ripping through a bomb-laced Daesh vehicle, which had been left at one entrance to the city to block the forces’ advance.

Overwhelmed by casualties, the Takfiris threw 40 bedridden patients, most of them elderly, out of the Mosul General Hospital, filling its aisles and emergency ward with their own wounded members, Iraq’s al-Sumaria TV network reported.

Locals, meanwhile, said the bodies of most of the victims of the city’s clashes had been taken to the al-Qabat district, situated in the city’s east.

On Monday, Iraqi forces were engaged in a push toward the center of the strategically-important al-Hamdaniya district in the northeast of Iraq’s Nineveh Province, of which Mosul is the capital, as part of the larger-scale push to retake Mosul.

Large numbers of the terrorists are, meanwhile, reported to have fled Mosul as the group is said to have lost the power to confront the advancing Iraqi forces.

The Takfiri terror group has declared the city its so-called headquarters in Iraq. The city has been under Daesh control since 2014, when the terror outfit started ravaging the country.

Also on Tuesday, a Kurdish journalist captured footage of a jet fighter destroying a Daesh car bomb north of Mosul as it was heading toward the Peshmerga forces in Nawaran.

Reports of horror emerging

The UN human rights office said it had preliminary reports about scores of mass killings by Daesh around Mosul in the past week.

UN human rights spokesman Rupert Colville told a regular UN briefing in Geneva that the bodies of 70 civilians with bullet wounds had been discovered by Iraqi security forces in the Tuloul Naser Village on October 20, and 50 former police officers being held outside the city had also reportedly been killed.

Fifteen civilians were killed and their bodies thrown into the river in the nearby Safina Village, while six men were tied to a vehicle and dragged around the village, the official said.

He said there were reports that Daesh fighters had also shot dead three women and three girls and wounded four other children because they were lagging behind during a forced relocation due to one of the children’s disability.

A Turkish “if”

Meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has said Ankara could launch a “ground operation” in Iraq if it is threatened.

“If there is a threat posed to Turkey, we are ready to use all our resources, including a ground operation…, to eliminate that threat,” Cavusoglu said in an interview with Kanal 24 broadcaster.

He did not explain what could constitute a “threat” to the Turkish state. Kurds, including those in Iraq, have long been considered by Ankara to be “terrorists.” Turkey has been hitting their positions, as well as those of Kurdish forces in Syria, with airstrikes for some time.

Daesh, too, may be a source of such a threat. Ankara said this week it had already hit Daesh positions with its artillery at the Bashiqa camp in northern Iraq.

But Cavusoglu’s remarks may also be directed at the Iraqi military. Officials in Baghdad, who are engaged in a war of words with the Turks over unauthorized Turkish military deployments to their territory, recently said the Iraqi military may target the Turkish forces if the latter interfere in the ongoing battle for Mosul.

Area freed in Anbar

Meanwhile, Suhaib al-Rawi, the governor of the vast western Iraqi province of Anbar, has also said that security forces have fully liberated the province’s al-Rutba district, raising the national flag over the district governor’s building there

Heartbreaking moment Mosul girl Aysha weeps ‘I thought you’d never come’ as Iraqi forces arrive to recapture city from ISIS

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The 10-year-old girl told Iraqi soldiers 'I thought you'd never come'

The 10-year-old girl told Iraqi soldiers ‘I thought you’d never come’

Ten-year-old Aysha tells troops how her father, as well as other children, have been killed by Islamic State in her village of Kafel, near Iraq’s second city

This is the heartbreaking moment a little girl weeps and offers to ‘kiss the feet’ of forces arriving to reclaim her city from Islamic State.

Ten-year-old Aysha tells troops “I thought you’d never come” as they arrived near Mosul in northern Iraq, which has been under ISIS control since 2014.

The child described how her village Kafer, around 18 miles from Mosul, had been ripped apart by the Islamist extremists.

She said her father, as well as other children in the village, had been killed and her family left with nothing.

She spoke emotionally into a camera as Iraqi soldiers arrived, saying: “I’m so thankful to you, I thought you’d never come for us.

“We had no food or water for three days and I was just me and my mother.

“My father was killed by the terrorists,” she continued.

“The IS men have taken away so many children from the village and we don’t know what happened to them.

“Some of them died. The men made my mother give them money and jewels and we have nothing.

“Thank you, thank you. I would like to kiss your feet”.

Source: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/heartbreaking-moment-mosul-girl-weeps-9108356?ptnr_rid=785807&icid=EM_Mirror_Nletter_DailyNews_News_smallteaser_Text_Story1

 

Iraqi official: Turkey and we agreed not true in Mosul

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no-deal-with-turkeyIraqi government officials, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter “Turkey and Iraq have agreed in principle on Mosul,” said the statement is not true

officials speaking to the BBC on condition his name not be disclosed, said they do not want Turkey to join the Mosul operation.

Iraq stated that if Turkey wants to join the Mosul operation against it turns out.

Ashton Carter in Friday ‘Ankara and Baghdad that Turkey thought that an agreement on the operation taking place in Mosul, “he said.

Carter, made these disclosures as part of his visit to Turkey after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls.

stating that the approval of the Iraqi government on this issue certainly the US defense secretary, said he was not certain of the details of Turkey’s possible role in Mosul.

‘DO NOT STOP VIOLATION AND with us our sovereignty, we WANT TURKEY’

The Iraqi official told the BBC that the allegations be true deal and Mosul’s liberation in a role that falls to Turkey ‘he said.

He said “we expect from Turkey in the fight against Daesan terror stand beside Iraq, does not violate Iraq’s sovereignty, to respect neighborly ties and is threatening the unity of Mosul or the Iraqi people in another place,” he said.

between Iraq and Turkey, Turkey in recent tensions deepened over military base in Başika case.

Iraq, the base says it is a violation of the sovereign rights of Baghdad.

The military base was established in Ankara at the invitation of the government in Baghdad and Erbil, Turkey to the security issues in the region directly advocates said the base concerned.

Source: BBC Turkish http://aryenhaber5.com/irakli-yetkili-musul-konusunda-turkiyeyle-anlastigimiz-dogru-degil/

The battle for Mosul has barely begun, but the civilian toll is already being tallied

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mosul-childernFilippo Grandi, the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, on Monday, Oct. 17, 2016, urged warring parties in Iraq to spare the lives of civilians and not use them as hostages or human shields during the military’s efforts to dislodge Islamic State militants from Mosul. Hadi Mizban AP

Stories have emerged of nervous Islamic State fighters barring Mosul residents from leaving as they seek to preserve their narrative of a “caliphate” that was welcomed and defended by locals. Without agreed-upon escape routes for civilians, Iraqi military commanders have asked families to stay put and fly white flags from their homes, a prospect that Save the Children dismissed as impractical in a brutal urban conflict and, worse, an opening for “civilian buildings being turned into military positions and families being used as human shields.”

The United Nations shares the concern that ordinary families could be forced into acting as shields for the Islamic State.

“Families are at extreme risk of being caught in crossfire or targeted by snipers,” said Stephen O’Brien, the U.N.’s coordinator for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. “Tens of thousands of Iraqi girls, boys, women and men may be under siege or held as human shields.”

Even if families make it out alive, there’s little guarantee that they’ll find sufficient shelter in seven emergency camps. Aid groups expect more than 200,000 people to flee Mosul in the early stages of the battle, but there are only enough tents for 60,000 right now. Humanitarian workers are bracing for a million-person exodus overall, with the vast majority of those – some 700,000, the U.N. says – projected to require food, water and medical assistance.

By Hannah Allam

WASHINGTON

The battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State is only a couple of days old but already chilling stories of civilian suffering are emerging.

Dispatches from humanitarian aid workers on the ground tell of children dying of thirst or being killed by land mines as they try to flee the battle, which began Sunday. Staff at a Save the Children station in the area said a severely dehydrated baby arrive there on the brink of death.

Other children showed up barefoot after a 36-hour trek along a route dotted with homemade bombs planted by the extremists. A family that lost two children to hidden explosives told aid workers they couldn’t retrieve the bodies for fear of another blast.

This misery, humanitarian agencies warn, is likely only the beginning of what’s expected to be a protracted fight with a dire toll on civilians who either can’t escape or who manage to flee but find no sanctuary in overcrowded camps.

In the past few days, international aid agencies have issued urgent appeals for parties to the conflict to protect the 1.5 million people trapped in Mosul. More than half a million children are among those at risk, according to the United Nations.

“With no clear safe routes out of Mosul, thousands are now in danger of getting caught up in the crossfire,” said Aleksandar Milutinovic, the International Rescue Committee’s director for Iraq. “Civilians who attempt to escape the city will have little choice but to take their lives into their own hands and pray that they are able to avoid snipers, landmines, booby traps and other explosives.”

Refugee agencies say 4 million Iraqis have been displaced and more than 24,000 killed since the Islamic State’s rampage through much of north and western Iraq in 2014. While the extremist group has been routed from some key territories, retaking Mosul – Iraq’s second-largest city – will be a test for Iraqi security forces eager to redeem themselves after their collapse during the 2014 Islamic State march that took the insurgents almost to the capital, Baghdad.

Some 5,000 U.S. forces are now in Iraq, advising and training Iraqi security forces, including on the front line. U.S. air strikes are also helping, including 70 in and around Mosul this month alone, according to the Pentagon.

“As Iraqi security forces push toward Mosul, they are already identifying and working to identify escape routes and communicating also directions to civilians as the offensive proceeds,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Monday without elaboration.

Stories have emerged of nervous Islamic State fighters barring Mosul residents from leaving as they seek to preserve their narrative of a “caliphate” that was welcomed and defended by locals. Without agreed-upon escape routes for civilians, Iraqi military commanders have asked families to stay put and fly white flags from their homes, a prospect that Save the Children dismissed as impractical in a brutal urban conflict and, worse, an opening for “civilian buildings being turned into military positions and families being used as human shields.”

The United Nations shares the concern that ordinary families could be forced into acting as shields for the Islamic State.

“Families are at extreme risk of being caught in crossfire or targeted by snipers,” said Stephen O’Brien, the U.N.’s coordinator for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. “Tens of thousands of Iraqi girls, boys, women and men may be under siege or held as human shields.”

Even if families make it out alive, there’s little guarantee that they’ll find sufficient shelter in seven emergency camps. Aid groups expect more than 200,000 people to flee Mosul in the early stages of the battle, but there are only enough tents for 60,000 right now. Humanitarian workers are bracing for a million-person exodus overall, with the vast majority of those – some 700,000, the U.N. says – projected to require food, water and medical assistance.

If there’s no space in the camps, aid workers say, families are likely to seek shelter in abandoned buildings, schools and mosques around Mosul. U.N. workers and other responders have positioned mobile teams in hopes of reaching the most vulnerable and containing the humanitarian crisis by offer vaccinations against polio and measles.

The International Rescue Committee, for example, is on standby to send mobile response teams to displaced people on the outskirts of the city; they’ll be able to provide $420 cash to 5,000 families, representing about 30,000 people, and another 30,000 will receive essential items and medical attention.

The Rescue Committee also is among the handful of agencies that will monitor the mandatory security screenings of all men and boys over age 14 who leave Mosul; Iraqi and Kurdish authorities imposed the checks to make sure no Islamic State fighters flee among ordinary families.

Thousands already have made their way out of nearby Hawija as coalition forces fight their way toward the city. Aram Shakaram, Save the Children’s deputy country director for Iraq, said the flow out of the area – traumatized families arrive starving and near collapse after journeys through explosives-laced mountain trails – is a harbinger of the coming crisis.

“This is just the start and we fear it is going to get much more,” Shakaram said. “The conditions for people fleeing Hawija are an early warning sign of what will happen when far greater numbers flee Mosul itself.”

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Iraqi Prime Minister: We haven’t allowed Turkish soldiers, We warn them not to dare to violate Iraq’s sovereignty.”

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iraqi-pm-turkeyIraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi spoke about Turkey: “We warn them not to dare to violate Iraq’s sovereignty.”

According to Almasalah, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi came together with the foreign missions and their representatives in Baghdad. 

Talking about Turkey during this meeting, al-Abadi stated: “I am not very optimistic about Turkey’s attitude towards Iraq and the fact that they are escalating the tension.”

Stating that they haven’t allowed Turkish soldiers, al-Abadi added: “Erdoğan says that Kurds are subjected to assimilation in Iraq. Well, have you provided the Kurds in Turkey with their military and political rights?”

Here are the highlights of al-Abadi’s statement:

“We tell them to respect the sovereignty of Iraq and to withdraw their soliders in northern Iraq immediately. If Turkish soldiers stay there, historical relations of the two country would be damaged.”

Barzani: Ankara should come to terms with Baghdad, if they would like to be involved in the operation

While the Mosul operation continues, President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Mesud Barzani, Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani and some generals of Iraqi Army paid a visit to Peshmerga forces in Hazir Front.

After the visit, Mesud Barzani held a press meeting and spoke about the operation:

“On the first day of the operation, a region of about 200 kilometers has been liberated. The operation on south and east fronts of Mosul was lead by Peshmerga and Iraqi army. I thank the coalition forces. We won’t let Mosul to end up like Aleppo. I hope Mosul will be liberated and we will put an end to terrorism. People of Mosul should trust Peshmerga and Iraqi army. They won’t be harmed. We won’t hold grudges. We will set them free and make sure that they live in safety.”

“After ISIS, there should be political solutions”

Journalists asked Mesud Barzani about Turkey’s demand to be included in the Mosul operation and Barzani said: “We think that there should be a conciliation between Ankara and Baghdad. Ankara should come to terms with Baghdad, if they would like to be involved in the operation.

Prime Minster Nechervan Barzani stated that ISIS is a threat against the entire world and the Mosul operation is important for every one: “The major operation started, however, ISIS attacks revealed that the safety of all the countries in the world depends on each other. ISIS is not only a threat against some countries in the region, but against the entire world. After ISIS, we have to find political solutions. Iraqi Kurdistan Region is ready to assume responsibility in order to provide a peaceful solution.”

The Iraqi army is pressing on with day two of the operation to retake Iraq’s second city while Kurdish forces pause offensive,

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iraq-push-aheadIraq’s peshmerga has paused its advance on Mosul after capturing a handful of villages from so-called “Islamic State” (IS). The Iraqi army is pressing on with day two of the operation to retake Iraq’s second city.

Colonel Khathar Sheikhan of the Kurdish forces, known as peshmerga, confirmed on Tuesday that having acheived their objectives, his troops “are just holding our positions” in the Khazer area.

The pause came after a day of intense fighting involving airstrikes, heavy artillery and “Islamic State” (IS) car bombs.

The Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga fighters, backed by US air and ground support began the battle to take back Mosul on Monday. Mosul is Iraq’s second largest city and the IS group’s last urban bastion. The front line east of Mosul is some 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the city.

The operation is expected to take weeks or even months. On the first day, however, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said that Iraqi forces were “ahead of schedule.”

The White House said Iraqi forces have taken the leading role in this operation, with US troops in Iraq serving to train, advise and assist Iraqis.

Baghdad: Sadr ask for protest in front Turkish Embassy in Support of the Army and denouncing “the terrorists and the Turkish arsenal”

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al-sadr-turkish-embasyAlsumaria News / Baghdad
He called the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, on Monday, to postpone the demonstrations in front of court time and planned on Tuesday, face a “crawling” toward the Turkish Embassy to support the army and the liberation of Mosul, “the terrorists and the Turkish arsenal”

Sadr said in a televised speech followed up, Alsumaria News, “the aspects of my words to my dear ones in revolt for reform, and tell them that it has become necessary for us to and from the door of the fulfillment of our military and appreciation for Oagaftna courage in Mosul humpback beloved that we postpone the Tazahratna peaceful Mhamtna before the time the court to go thousands Zahvin about embassy Turkish “.

He said al-Sadr, “to hear your voice and peaceful means and literary without infringe upon or are aware of the state unified moral and chants of you will support this army and Mjahidikm to liberate Mosul from terrorists and Turkish arsenal that sits on the land of the province without respect for our land and our sovereignty.”

He said al-Sadr, “deeply regret with an understanding of the power of the same date to hear the voice of the embassy to be a warning to anyone who thinks he is able to occupy Iraq and his land.”

He called Sadrist leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday (October 11, 2016) on Iraqis to demonstrate in front of time the court (Federal Supreme Court headquarters in Baghdad) on Tuesday for “a peaceful epic Underline” to reject the return of “corrupt” to their office, while stressing should not be reduced to the demonstration category or a particular stream.

Mosul Liberation Update: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, escaped from a convoy near the forest area in Mosul deadly air strike,

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al-baghdadiAlsumaria News / Nineveh
According to a local source in Nineveh province, on Monday, that the leader of the “Daesh”, known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, escaped from a convoy near the forest area in Mosul deadly air strike, while noting the death of one of the most prominent leaders of the so-called “Army of distress,” and a number of his companions.

The source said in an interview for the Sumerian News, “The leader of al Daesh Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi survived, today, targeted a military convoy that was there in the forest area in the city of Mosul, a deadly air strike.”

The source, who asked not to be named, said: “Moroccan known as Abu Musa, one of the most important leaders of the Army of brackish killed along with a number of his companions knockout,” pointing out that “more than five armored vehicles, some completely burned as a result of intensive shelling.”

It is noteworthy that the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces Haider al-Abadi, announced in the early hours of Monday morning, October 2016 17, the start of liberalization city of Mosul operations from the grip of the “Daesh,” adding that the troops would enter Mosul is “The Iraqi army and national police,” exclusively , the people of Mosul and called for cooperation with the liberated forces and “peaceful coexistence” with all components after liberation

Breaking News: Battle for Mosul: Operation to retake Iraqi city from IS ‘begins’

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mosul-libA military operation to recapture the Iraqi city of Mosul from so-called Islamic State (IS) has begun, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says.

The long-awaited assault from Kurdish Peshmerga, Iraqi government and allied forces is backed by the US-led coalition fighting IS in Iraq.

Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, has been under IS control since June 2014.

The UN has warned that the humanitarian impact could be “enormous”, and affect up to 1.2 million people.

Mosul is the group’s last major stronghold in Iraq. The loss of the city, officials say, would mark the effective defeat of IS in the country.

In an address broadcast on state television in the early hours of Monday, Mr Abadi said: “The hour has come and the moment of great victory is near.”

“Today I declare the start of these victorious operations to free you from the violence and terrorism of Daesh,” he added, using another name for IS.

Dressed in military uniform and surrounded by Iraqi officers, he vowed that only government forces would enter Mosul, a Sunni-majority city.

It was from there that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate – a state governed in accordance with Islamic law – in territory controlled by the group in Iraq and Syria.

An operation to retake the city, capital of the northern Nineveh governorate, has been planned for months.