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Iraq deploys troops to seize Mosul: Army official

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Iraqi soldiers patrol a suburb close to the area of Jweibah, east of the city of Ramadi, on February 4, 2016. (AFP photo)

Iraqi soldiers patrol a suburb close to the area of Jweibah, east of the city of Ramadi, on February 4, 2016. (AFP photo)

An Iraqi army official says thousands of soldiers are being deployed to an army base in northern Iraq in order to prepare for retaking Mosul from Daesh Takfiri militants.

“Units from the Iraqi army have begun arriving to [at] a military base near the Makhmur district to start launching initial military operations toward Mosul,” the official said on Monday. Makhmur is some 70 kilometers southeast of Mosul.

The official added that three brigades have so far been stationed at the base and some 4,500 soldiers would eventually arrive.

Daesh captured Mosul in June 2014 and from there began to seize other areas in the north and west of Iraq.

The army official further noted that the aim of the military operation is to cut off Daesh supply lines between Mosul and surrounding areas like Hawijah in Kirkuk Province and Baiji in Salaheddin Province.

Halgurd Hekmat, a spokesman for Kurdish forces, also said that the majority of the deployed troops are Kurdish.

“These forces came with the approval of the presidency and government of the Kurdistan region of Iraq,” Hekmat added, noting that the base is for both aircraft and soldiers.

On Sunday, a senior Saudi-born Daesh commander, named as Shobaib Abu Majd al-Kanani, was killed in an airstrike in Nineveh Province. Eight other Takfiri militants were also killed in the attack.

Gruesome violence has plagued the northern and western parts of Iraq ever since Daesh launched an offensive in the country in June 2014.

The militants have been committing vicious crimes against all ethnic and religious communities in Iraq, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians and others.

Iraqi army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Mobilization Units are seeking to win back militant-held regions in joint operations.

Turkey Creating ISIS false Flag operation in Iraq to justify troop invasion of Iraq

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended on Friday Turkish troop deployment in a base in northern Iraq after Turkish officials said soldiers there repelled an attack by Islamic State (IS) militants, Today’s Zaman reported.
Eighteen IS militants were killed in the attack on the Bashiqa camp in the Nineveh province, about 140 kilometers (90 miles) from the Turkish border, where Turkish soldiers are training Iraqi Kurdish forces, Erdogan told reporters in Istanbul. There were no casualties among the Turkish troops, he said.

Erdogan said the incident vindicated a Turkish decision to deploy troops to the camp and reiterated that the Turkish deployment had been in coordination with the Iraqi government, despite recent Iraqi protests against the Turkish military presence.

Erdogan said the Iraqi position has changed after Turkey’s relations with Russia deteriorated following the downing of a Russian jet by Turkish F-16s near the border with Syria in late November and criticized the Russian military involvement in Syria.

“Russia says it is in Syria because it was invited by the Syrian government. The Syrian government is not a legitimate government,” he said. “Why did you send forces to Georgia then? Because you were invited? Did you send forces to Ukraine because you were invited there?”
Erdogan also rejected that Russian forces are fighting ISIL in Syria. “Turkmens say Russia bombs their villages. Russia is not fighting against IS,” he said.
Turkey deployed a force protection unit of around 150 troops last month, citing heightened security risks near Bashiqa, where its troops are training the Iraqi militia to fight IS, and stirring a diplomatic row.
Iraq has objected to the deployment and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi accused Ankara last week of failing to respect an agreement to withdraw the troops. Iraq’s foreign minister warned Baghdad could resort to military action if forced.
Iraqi security forces have had only a limited presence in the Nineveh province, where the camp is located, since collapsing in June 2014 in the face of a lightning advance by IS.
Ankara has acknowledged there was a “miscommunication” with Baghdad over the deployment.
It later withdrew some troops to another base inside the nearby autonomous Kurdistan region and said it would continue to pull out of the Nineveh province, where Bashiqa is located, but President Erdogn has ruled out a full withdrawal.

Iraqi defense minister asks Terrorist State of Turkey to withdraw troops from “Christian Town Bashiqa”

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Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq‘s defense minister said on Sunday he had told his Turkish counterpart that hundreds of Turkish forces deployed inside Iraq near the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)-held city of Mosul had been sent without informing or coordinating with Baghdad, and should be withdrawn.

Khaled al-Obeidi said in a statement the Turkish defense minister had explained the deployment as necessary to protect Turkish military advisers training Iraqi forces in preparation for a campaign to retake Mosul.

But Obeidi said the Turkish force was too large for such a purpose.

“No matter the size of the force entering Iraq, it is rejected,” the statement said. “It was possible to undertake this sort of prior coordination without creating circumstances which contributed to a crisis between the two countries.”

Iraq’s president, prime minister and foreign ministry have all objected to the Turkish deployment in recent days, calling it a hostile act and a violation of international law. Baghdad also summoned the Turkish ambassador to issue a formal protest.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu said on Saturday that it was a routine troop rotation and that Turkish forces had set up a camp some 30 kilometers (19 miles) northeast of Mosul at the Mosul governor’s request, and in coordination with the Iraqi Defense Ministry.

A small number of Turkish trainers were already at the camp before the latest deployment to train the Hashid Watani (national mobilization), a force made up of mainly Sunni Arab former Iraqi police and volunteers from Mosul, which ISIL militants seized in June 2014.

Iraq: Over 70 Islamic State Daesh families depart Iraq’s Mosul for Syria: Official

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This file photo shows Takfiri Daesh militants in an undisclosed location in Iraq.

This file photo shows Takfiri Daesh militants in an undisclosed location in Iraq.

The Takfiri Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has reportedly moved tens of the families of its own members from Iraq’s conflict-ridden northern province of Nineveh to an unknown location in neighboring Syria.

Saeed Mamouzini, the spokesman for the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Wednesday that the families have been departing the militant-held city, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, for Syria on board a number of buses over the past few days.

He said that 23 militants, among them commanders, had left Mosul for Syria last week.

Daesh kills own injured member

Meanwhile, Daesh has executed one of its injured members in Iraq’s conflict-ridden western province of Anbar, days after it murdered more than two dozen of its own wounded Takfiri terrorists elsewhere in Iraq.

Jabbar al-Ma’mouri, a commander of the pro-government Popular Mobilization units, told al-Sumaria on Tuesday that Daesh extremists killed the injured comrade in the city of Saqlawiyah, located 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of the capital, Baghdad.

Ma’mouri added that Daesh members then left the body to be recovered by Iraqi security personnel. The slain militant had reportedly sustained injuries in Saqlawiyah during clashes with Iraqi army troopers backed by allied fighters.

On September 22, Mamouzini said Daesh had executed 27 of its wounded members in the old prison of the militant-held city, situated some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of Baghdad.

The northern and western parts of Iraq have been plagued by violence ever since Daesh began its march through Iraqi territory in June 2014. Army soldiers and the Popular Mobilization units have joined forces and are seeking to take back militant-held regions.

Iraq: Mosul ISIL to Introduce ‘Islamic’ Gold Dinar

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1023771116The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) terrorist group is now looking to introduce its own currency in an effort to solidify its control over areas where it proclaimed a “caliphate.”
Within the next few days the militant group will start recalling foreign currency from circulation in Mosul in a bid to reinstate the gold dinar as a means of exchange, the Iraqi TV channel al-Sumariya reported on Sunday.
The militant leaders announced the move in mosques in the cities of Mosul and Nineveh
The group wants to reinstate an ancient Islamic currency using gold and silver coins, the dinar and the dirham. The currency was originally introduced in 634AD by the Caliphate of Uthman.
The “Islamic dinar” will enter circulation across the Nineveh province in September.
According to media reports one gold dinar will be worth 139 US dollars.
Designs due to be embossed on the gold coins included a symbol of seven wheat stalks — a Quranic reference — and a world map.
The prototype design had also shown that the coins would carry an Arabic message on the lines of “The Islamic State — A caliphate based on the doctrine of the Prophet.”

Read more: http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20150831/1026381706/ISIL-dinar-Mosul.html#ixzz3kQ1zA2dy

Iraqi parliament to question Massoud Barzani for Sinjar, Mosul fall Report:

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Iraqi Kurdistan president Massoud Barzani. Photo: AFP

BAGHDAD,— At least 76 signatures have been collected in the Iraqi Parliament to question Massoud Barzani on the 2014 fall of Sinjar (Shingal) and Nineveh to Islamic State (IS) fighters.

Barzani, who’s term as President of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ended on August 20, was leader of the region during IS’ rampage across northern Iraq.

A member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Iraqi parliament, Bakhtiar Shaways, told Xendan and that the State of Law Coalition Deputy Awatif Nima has received the approval of 76 deputies and has delivered the demand to parliament leadership board.

Iraqi MP Bakhtiyar Shaways told NRT on Tuesday that Kurdish MPs have declined to sign the petition.

“Iraqi Parliament member from the State of Law bloc, Awatif Nima, sent the request to the Parliament’s leadership after she collected the signatures,” Shaways said.

Iraqi lawmakers claim Barzani bears responsibility for the fall of Sinjar and Nineveh and should face a hearing.

The KDP party led by Barzani was criticised for failing to protect the Yazidi minority during a major IS onslaught a year ago, while the PKK and its Syrian sister party are widely seen as the Yazidis’ saviors.

Islamic State has extended its control on most parts of Sinjar district on August 3, 2014 after Iraqi Kurdish KDP forces withdrew from Sinjar without a fight, leaving behind the Kurdish Yazidi civilians, which led thousands of Kurdish families to flee to Mount Sinjar, where they were trapped in it and suffered from significant lack of water and food, killing and abduction of thousands of Yazidis as well as rape and captivity of thousands of women.

The Yazidis beg the KDP Peshmerga to at least leave them their weapons so as to give them a chance at defending themselves against IS militants, but the Peshmergas refuse, Yazidi refugees in Iraqi Kurdistan said.

Thousands of Yazidi Kurdish women and girls have been forced to marry or been sold into sexual slavery by the IS jihadists, according to Human Rights organizations and observers.

Barzani is not the only leader to be called on for questioning regarding the fall of Iraq’s Nineveh province to extremists.

Iraq’s Parliament referred a report to the judiciary on August 16, calling for former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and dozens of top officials to face a trial for their roles in the fall of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city.

Source: eKurd.com

Iraq’s Maliki blames Turkey for fall of Mosul

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Vice President Nouri al-Maliki,

Vice President Nouri al-Maliki,

Iraq’s former prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, on Tuesday condemned as having “no value” a parliamentary panel’s findings on the fall of Mosul to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) which called for him and other top officials to stand trial for negligence.

“What happened in Mosul was a conspiracy planned in Ankara, then the conspiracy moved to Arbil,” Maliki said in posts on Facebook, referring to the capitals of Turkey and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Iraq: ISIL militants kill over dozen Iraqi women in Mosul

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isil-womenMembers of the Takfiri ISIL group have executed more than a dozen women in Iraq’s embattled northern city of Mosul as they continue perpetrating crimes against humanity on a large scale in the areas under their control, according to Albawaba.com.

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) spokesman in Mosul, Saeed Mamouzini, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network on Monday that ISIL extremists have killed 19 women in the city, located some 400 kilometers (248 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, over the past two days after the victims refused to marry the militants.

Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights also reported on December 16, 2014, that ISIL terrorists had executed at least 150 women, including pregnant ones, in the country’s western province of al-Anbar, after they declined to marry the Takfiris.
The ministry further noted that the militants buried the women in mass graves in Fallujah, situated about 69 kilometers (43 miles) west of Baghdad.

Last month, Hana Nawafili, a spokeswoman for the Iraqi Observatory for the Defense of Battered Women, told Arabic-language al-Maalomah news agency that ISIL terrorists had gang-raped seven female residents of Fallujah, and then murdered them.

Source: Panorama.am

While Turkey busy killing Kurds in Iraq, ISIL abducts over 180 children in Iraq’s Mosul

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ffc4bf3b-f9a6-419c-8773-b63d2ac53251The Takfiri ISIL terrorist group has abducted more than 180 children in the Iraqi city of Mosul over the past few days, an Iraqi Kurdish official says.

Saeed Mamouzini, a senior official from the Iraqi Kurdistan’s Democrat Party (KDP), said on Saturday that the children, aged between 10 and 15, have been transferred to the ISIL military camps in the city of Mosul to receive training.

“During the past few days, ISIL militants kidnapped 182 children from the city of Mosul… The children were transferred to centers for ideological training, weapons and suicide operations,” media outlets quoted Mamouzini as saying.

Latest figures show the militant group has abducted about 1,500 children since capturing the city over a year ago.

The Takfiri group uses children in both Syria and Iraq to carry out terrorist attacks and executions.

Some videos released by the ISIL terrorists show children or teenagers executing captured soldiers and civilians.

Media reports also indicate that the ISIL terrorist group is teaching children to carry out beheadings by showing them gruesome videos of decapitations in training camps.

The Takfiri group is also currently recruiting teenagers and children in the areas under its control in Syria and Iraq by offering them gifts or threatening and brainwashing them.

Erdoagn-Davutoglu Mosul Like Invasion in play for Northern Syria

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Why Davutoglu desparately wanting to Form Government with MHP party?

Erdogan and Davutoglu are in second emergency security meetings possibly planing another false Flag operation invasion of northern Syria just like they did Mosul invasion, which they put ISIS as a buffer zone in between (Iraq) Baghdad and (Kurdistan) Erbil force both Kurd and Arab to capitulate the two oil pipeline going through Turkey this time they will play Turkmen CARD just like the way they used before the invasion of northern Cyprus in 1974.
They will intensify the propaganda that the kurd’s are ethnically cleansing the Turkmen. this time they will put Islamic State between Assad and Kurd (YPG) they will also mobilize Arab groups including ISIL and al-Qaeda and Turkish Secret army called (FSA) which is mostly are Turkmen from central Asia use them to create a buffer zone.
Davutoglu will offer anything and everything possible to MHP to form coalition government with (AKP) because MHP’s Animosity of Kurd (HDP)