MEOPOTAMIA NEWS : KURDS CONTRA KURDS / US SHOULD STOP PKK GUERILLA MOVEMENTS
Iraqi Kurdistan gov’t requests US force deployment on border with Syrian Kurdistan: spox
Posted on December 24, 2020 Jutyar Adil, the spokesman of the KDP-dominated Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Erbil, 2020.
HEWLÊR-Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan region,— The KDP-dominated Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has officially requested that the United States deploy its forces on Iraqi Kurdistan Region-Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) border to patrol the area and prevent clashes between Barzani’s Kurdistan Democratic Party KDP Peshmerga militias and the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a KRG spokesperson said on Wednesday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Syrian Kurdish dialogue to continue – PYD spokesperson
The PYD and the KNC, the two major factions among Syrian Kurdish parties, renewed negotiations in early November in efforts to stand together as a united front after Turkey’s cross-border offensive in northern Syria in October 2019.
December 23rd 2020 02:12 – Democratic Union Party (PYD) spokesperson Sama Baghdash.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Sama Baghdash, the spokesperson of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), told Kurdistan 24 on Monday that the intra-Kurdish dialogue between the main Syrian Kurdish political parties will continue after the formation of a new US administration.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ERDOGAN INVASION INTO IRAQ / TARGETING THE HEARTLAND OF KURDISH PKK GUERILLA
Turkey plans to send mercenaries into Haftanine
Bids by the Turkish State are under way to send mercenaries of the al-Nusra Front and the Turkistan Islamist Party into the region of Haftanine in Southern Kurdistan.
NEWS 24 Dec 2020, Thu – 09:35 2020-12-24T09:35:00 NEWS DESK – Information available purport that endeavors by the Turkish Occupation State to send into Haftanine of Southern Kurdistan mercenaries of the al-Nusra Front and the Turkistan Islamist Party that participated in the occupation of al-Bab, Jarablus and north eastern Syria, after they were sent into Libya and Karabakh, and so-called Turkistan Islamist Party includes members from Uighur, Chechnya, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and other mercenaries from mid Asian countries.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SINJAR-KURDISTAN-IRAQ : PKK NOW COOPERATES WITH ISLAMIST GROUPS HASHD
The Sinjar Municipal Office Directorate: Interview
by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi • Dec 23, 2020 at 8:21 am
The district of Sinjar in Ninawa countryside has become a point of tension on account of an agreement that was struck between the Iraqi central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government regarding Sinjar in October 2020. The most notable terms of that agreement (according to documents published in Arabic-language media) are as follows:
– The appointment of a new mayor.
– The exclusive management of Sinjar’s security portfolio by the Sinjar local police, the National Security apparatus, and the national intelligence apparatus in ‘coordination with the security apparatuses in the Kurdistan region.’
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DOWNGOING IRAQ MEETS DOWNGOING KURDISTAN
Iraqis protest government decision to devalue currency
Basic foodstuffs have become more expensive after sudden change in price of dollar – Halgurd Sherwani December 22nd 2020 15:12
Iraqi protesters take part in a demonstration in the central city of Najaf, Dec. 21, 2020. ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Hundreds of Iraqis on Monday in several Iraqi cities held gatherings to protests the recent decision by their government to devalue the Iraqi dinar against the dollar in a bid to cover the budget deficit it had suffered due to low crude prices.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ….. DOES NOTHING ONLY – CHRISTIANS!
Iran’s Christians face renewed fears ahead of Christmas
The case of Dabrina Bet Tamraz and her parents highlights a string of crackdowns against Evangelical and Protestant Christians across the country that have forced many to flee.
An Iranian Christian woman lights candles during the Christmas Eve mass at the St. Gregor Armenian Catholic church in Tehran on Dec. 24, 2017, as Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas.
Joe Snell Dec 18, 2020 AL MONITOR – In 2009, Iran began a crackdown on its religious community that led to the arrest of Dabrina Bet Tamraz. The government eventually shuttered her family’s Assyrian Pentecostal church.
MESOPOTAMIA NES REPORT KURDISTAN-IRAQ : Iraq, KRG reach deal on draft budget, awaiting final approval from national legislature
“…while this news is notable, I’d not make too much of it. It means nothing from a legal standpoint without parliament’s approval.” – Kurdistan 24 December 19th 2020 15:12
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraq’s finance minister Ali Allawi on Saturday announced an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on the 2021 draft budget bill. However, experts say the Iraqi parliament will make the final decision on the dispute.
The Iraqi finance minister announced the news after extensive negotiations in Baghdad with a KRG delegation headed by Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE LAST CHAPTER OF KURDISTAN – IRAQ
Iraq’s young Kurdish protesters are desperate, a violent crackdown could spark a full uprising
Eight protesters have died this month in anti-government protests Date of publication: 17 December, 2020 – JUDITH NEURINK
Comment: The brutal crackdown on anti-government protests is a dangerous way to react to the desperation of young, jobless people who have lost all trust in politics, writes Judit Neurink.
Sixteen years old. That was the age of the youngest of eight protesters who died earlier this month due to the brutal force employed by the authorities in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq to quell the latest wave of demonstrations.
Washington on the spot as its Syrian Kurd allies are drawn into PKK-KDP fight
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WHAT WILL BIDEN DO ?
Reported border clash worsens conflict between Kurdish factions in triangle where US, Turkish and Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish forces come into play.
Iraqi security forces launch rockets against Kurdish peshmerga positions on Oct. 26, 2017, in the area of Fish Khabur at the Turkish and Syrian borders with the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region. Photo by AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images.
Amberin Zaman Dec 16, 2020 – AL MONITOR – Tensions between the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iraq (KDP) and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) have sharply escalated amid claims that a PKK-linked Syrian militia that is backed by the United States attacked Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces early Wednesday, with potential consequences for the US-led coalition mission in Syria.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : NEUE KONSTELLATIONEN IRAQ / SYRIEN
Washington vor Ort gefordert: da seine syrischen kurdischen Verbündeten in den Kampf zwischen PKK und KDP hineingezogen werden
Der gemeldete Grenzkonflikt verschärft den Konflikt zwischen kurdischen Gruppierungen im Dreieck, in dem US-, türkische und syrische und irakische kurdische Kräfte ins Spiel kommen.
Amberin Zaman AL MONITOR – 16. Dez 2020
Die Spannungen zwischen der Demokratischen Partei Kurdistans im Irak (KDP) und der Arbeiterpartei Kurdistans (PKK) sind angesichts der Behauptungen, dass eine von den USA unterstützte syrische PKK-Miliz am frühen Mittwoch irakische kurdische Peschmerga-Truppen angegriffen hat, mit möglichen Folgen für die US-geführte Koalitionsmission in Syrien stark eskaliert.
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