MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SÜDKURDISTAN / IRAK – KRIEG IN SICHT
Massive Truppenkonzentrationen in Mexmûr
30 Jan 20202 – Der Irak und die Führung in Südkurdistan ziehen Truppen im Umland des Ölfelds Dibaga nahe Mexmûr zusammen. ANF MEXMÛR – Freitag, 29 Jan 2021, 11:54
Im Umland von Dibaga im Distrikt Mexmûr werden seit Donnerstagabend intensive Truppenkonzentrationen beobachtet. Sowohl die südkurdische Führung im südlich gelegenen Hewlêr (Erbil) als auch die irakische Zentralregierung in Bagdad haben ihre Truppenstärke in der Region erhöht. Die Hintergründe sind unklar, allerdings befindet sich in Dibaga das Erdölfeld Khurmala. Der Öltransport in die Türkei wurde vorübergehend eingestellt.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ISIS BACK IN TOWN ! – ISIS is regrouping, gaining strength in Iraq’s disputed territories: Peshmerga ministry official
Khazan Jangiz ERBIL, RUDAW – Kurdistan Region — A Peshmerga ministry official warned on Tuesday of the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s growing strength and reorganization in Iraq, particularly in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.
“There have been around 15 activities from January 1 until now, most of them were in [disputed] regions like Diyala, Kirkuk, Salahaddin,” Deputy Minister of Peshmerga Sarbast Lazgin told Rudaw’s Hawraz Gulpy on Tuesday. “Some of these attacks were effective, they were strong attacks, they have become stronger than they were before.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : BAGHDAD BOMBING SPURS MAJOR INTELLIGENCE AND MILITARY RESHUFFLE
by Michael Knights PolicyWatch 3423 January 26, 2021
The Iraqi government continues to sharpen the leadership of various commands and bolster civilian control, giving the U.S.-led coalition more leverage to fight the Islamic State with a light footprint.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS KURDISTAN-IRAQ : THE FATE OF CHRISTIANS UNDER THE BARZANI (KDP) RULE !
Security in the Nineveh Plains: What it Means for Assyrians
By Neil Joseph – 2021-01-23 21:55 GMT – In August 2020, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi called for Iraq’s Christians to return to their country, promising that returnees would be assisted, accepted and protected. As a result, many praised Kadhimi’s appeal, viewing it as a hopeful omen for minorities in Iraq. With additional approval, Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako voiced that many exiled Christians are eager to return and feel reassured by the state’s approach to the situation. However, many ethnic Assyrians, who make up the majority of Christians from Iraq, voiced their various concerns, mainly regarding the present security situation.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ANOTHER ERDOGAN INVASION AHEAD IN KURDISTAN-IRAQ-SINJAR
Erdogan says Turkey may conduct operation against PKK in Iraq’s Sinjar
Posted on January 22, 2021 by MESOP – www.mesop.de ISTAMBUL,— Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey may conduct a joint operation with Iraq to clear Kurdish PKK rebels out of Iraq’s Yazidi Sinjar region.
In response to a question regarding a possible joint operation in Sinjar, Erdogan stated that it was possible, but refused to confirm whether such operation would take place in the near future.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS BACKGROUND : CHANGING OF THE GUARD – NEW IRAQI MILITIA TRENDS & RESPONSES
by Michael Knights, Hamdi Malik, and Crispin Smith – PolicyWatch 3419 January 19, 2021
In the year since their most iconic leaders were killed, Iran-backed militias in Iraq have been changing in crucial ways, providing rich insights into how Baghdad and its international partners should approach them in 2021.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : COMMUNIST RED CHINA BUYS KURDISTAN-IRAQ
Chinese investment increases in Kurdistan Region
“We are currently the stage of allocating a land for [a $5 billion] project and hope to lay its foundation stone in a near future.”
Halgurd Sherwani – January 17 2021 14:30 – A Chinese delegation consisting of investors and diplomats at the ceremony of laying the foundation stone for a massive Chinese Mall in Kurdistan Region’s Erbil, Jan. 10, 2021.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – In recent years, Chinese investment in the Kurdistan Region has increased with a massive shopping center and a tourist city, funded by Chinese entities, in construction and planning phases, respectively.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE IRANIAN THREAT IN IRAQ !
THE U.S. DESIGNATION OF KATAIB HEZBOLLAH’S ABU FADAK
by Michael Knights – Policy Alert January 13, 2021
The latest sanctions against a senior leader in the Iranian-backed terrorist militia is a reminder that such figures cannot slip onto the political spectrum merely by changing their job title.
On January 13, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced new sanctions on Abdul-Aziz al-Mohammadawi (usually known as Abu Fadak, sometimes Abu Hamid), the acting deputy chairman of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). He was designated for terrorist activities under Executive Order 13224.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ERDOGAN BOMBING CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ & ARMENIA (AZERBAIJAN)
Turkish airstrikes an existential threat to Iraq’s Assyrians: report
Yasmine Mosimann 12 Jan 2021 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Turkey’s sustained aerial pursuit of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Iraq is posing an existential threat to the country’s already dwindling Assyrian community, according to a new report.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Assyrian Christians and the Turkey-PKK Conflict in Iraq – Report
Assyrian Policy Institute – 2021-01-12 03:03 GMT
Over the course of the past year, the Turkish government has intensified its military operations targeting the militant Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) positions along the Iraqi-Turkish border on the grounds of domestic security. The recent interventions are part of a decades-long campaign which began in the early 1990s when the PKK set up its main command centers in the mountainous regions of today’s Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). Turkey’s conflict with the PKK–recognized as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, and the European Union–continues throughout the region, including in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, and northern Iraq. The operations in northern Iraq increased in June 2020, when Turkey launched Operations Claw-Eagle and Claw-Tiger–its most aggressive offensive targeting PKK strongholds in the country since 2015. Operation Claw-Eagle comprises Turkey’s aerial campaign,5 while Operation Claw-Tiger encompasses the attacks launched by the military’s ground operations in northern Iraq.
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