MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS : US warns Iraq on Iranian-backed militias
Laurie Mylroie | 27 Sept 2020 – KURDISTAN24
Members of the Iranian-backed Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia take part in a Quds Day march in Baghdad, July 1, 2016.
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) “The Iran-backed groups launching rockets at our Embassy are a danger not only to us but to the Government of Iraq, neighboring diplomatic missions, and residents of the former International Zone,” more commonly called the Green Zone, “and surrounding areas,” a State Department spokesperson told Kurdistan 24 on Saturday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Turkish Attacks in Northern Iraq Displace Assyrians
By Dale Gavlak Catholic News Service -Posted 2020-09-25 03:17 GMT
Iraqi Christian priests warn that the latest Turkish military attacks in northern Iraq are displacing Christians and exacerbating a precarious security situation.
“Already Christian villagers had to escape their homes because of Turkish military assaults last year on the pretext that those forces were attacking the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) fighters,” Father Emanuel Youkhana told Catholic News Service by phone.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS UN MEETING : A KURDISH VOICE
UNGA 2020: President Salih backs Iraqis ‘angry at scourge of corruption’ THE NATIONAL 24 Sept 2020
He also assured protests who have been demonstrating for the last year that ‘peaceful and constitutional change’ was possible
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : THE NEW OTTOMAN EMPIRE AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ – Turkey Turns Attention Towards Mosul
International Christian Concern – Posted 2020-09-24 01:45 GMT – Earlier this month, Turkish state media published an article series arguing that Turkey is the international ally needed by Iraq’s city of Mosul. The series also lamented Iraq’s official use of the name Nineveh, an Assyrian-Christian word, to describe Mosul. The article said that Mosul needs help and that “the only country that has the interest and ability to fulfill this roll… is, after all, Turkey.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL : Kadhimi’s Push Against Iran-Supported Paramilitaries
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi is likely heading toward a confrontation with the Iran-backed paramilitaries, which could threaten his fledgling coalition. -September 16, 2020 عربي CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT
Since former Iraqi intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi took office on May 7, 2020 as Prime Minister he has increased pressure against the Iran-led ‘axis-of-resistance’ paramilitaries. The paramilitaries have brigades within the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). Leveraging the U.S. ‘maximum pressure’ campaign aimed at Iran and an anti-Iran sentiment in the protest movement that started in October 2019 in central and southern Iraq, Kadhimi is using economic pressures and pushing out members and supporters of the paramilitaries from state institutions to weaken these groups.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : WEITERE KONTROLL & ERMÄCHTINGUNGSGESETZE
Verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken : Zweifel am Gesetz gegen Hetze im Netz
- Von Corinna Budras, Berlin FAZ – 18.09.2020-21:52
Das Gesetz zur Bekämpfung von Rechtsextremismus und Hetze im Internet steht auf der Kippe. Nun ist Bundespräsident Frank-Walter Steinmeier gefragt.
Das Gesetz zur Bekämpfung von Rechtsextremismus und Hetze im Internet stößt auf verfassungsrechtliche Bedenken. Zu diesem Schluss kommen eine Einschätzung des Wissenschaftlichen Dienstes des Bundestags sowie ein Gutachten des Mainzer Professors für Öffentliches Recht Matthias Bäcker für die Grünen-Fraktion.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORT : PKK under pressure in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
Turkey is continuing its attacks on the Kurdistan Workers Party as a senior Iraqi Kurdish military official hints the group may be wearing out its welcome. A Kurdish peshmerga fighter carries her weapon while walking in the foothills of the Qandil Mountains located along the Iraq-Iran border, May 5, 2006.
Sep 18, 2020 – AL MONITOR – ERBIL, Iraq — Turkey’s aggressive cross-border operations in northern Iraq against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) are not letting up, again putting the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the difficult position of having to manage its relationships with Baghdad and Ankara as well as decreasing number of the Iraqi Kurdish population, which retains sympathy for the PKK.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Arbeitete Frankfurter Kripo-Beamter als Söldner im Irak? / DEUTSCHE „WAGNERS“!
- Von Julian Staib, Wiesbaden – FAZ – -18.09.2020-12:57
Ein Beamter des Polizeipräsidiums Frankfurt soll Dienstgeheimnisse für einen nicht angemeldeten Nebenjob bei einer privaten Sicherheitsfirma im Irak genutzt haben. Der Vorfall wirft abermals einen Schatten auf die hessische Polizei.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : Iran’s Battered Economy
Author Paul Rivlin – In this issue of Iqtisadi: The Middle East Economy, Paul Rivlin analyses the Iranian economy in 2020 in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and economic sanctions. Date September 16, 2020
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : DONALD TRUMP RELEVANT SUPPORT FOR KURDS
US gives Peshmerga $250 million in military assistance
RUDAW 16 Sept 2020 – Karwan Faidhi Dri – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The United States is giving some $250 million in military equipment to the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga ministry, the ambassador to Iraq announced in Erbil on Tuesday.
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