MESOPOTAMIA NEWS Reports: Iran follows expansionary foreign policy through its groups in Iraq / HAWAR NEWS
Iraqi and other Western studies revealed that Iran is using its groups in Iraq to implement its expansionary foreign policy in Iraq, Syria and the countries of the region. One of the most important tasks of these Iraqi groups is to secure the land route between Tehran, Syria and Lebanon through Iraqi territory.
WORLD-Middle East 01 Aug 2020, Sat – 15:19 2020-08-01T15:19:00 News Desk
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : BETTER TIMES FOR IRAQI CHRISTANS / BESSERE ZEITEN FÜR IRAKS CHRISTEN
«Mutter» Minster Dschabro will sie vor allem rechtlich absichern
30 Juli 2020 – Nach langen Monaten ohne handlungsfähige Regierung und einem Volk auf der Strasse, das gegen seine Verarmung im viertreichsten Erdölland der Welt und die dafür hauptsächlich verantwortliche Korruption demonstrierte, sind im Irak seit Anfang Mai wieder halbwegs geordnete Verhältnisse eingekehrt, ein Verdienst der neuen Regierung.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS IRAQ & USA REACTING SMARTLY TO HARASSING TACTICS BY IRAQI MILITIAS
by Michael Knights PolicyWatch 3357 July 29, 2020
As attacks on international targets continue, the United States should help Iraqis take the lead in responding to nonlethal incidents and exploiting militia missteps.
On July 27, Iran-backed militias in Taji, Iraq, fired five rockets at the local military base, which hosts a small U.S. contingent. Indeed, Kataib Hezbollah (KH), Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and other groups are escalating their harassment campaign against the U.S.-led coalition presence using a range of tactics:
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : A YEZIDI NO CONTRA PKK – Yezidi House asks Iraq, international community to oust PKK from Sinjar / IRAQ
Hiwa Shilani | 28 July 2020 -Ezidi demonstrators holding a sign requesting Iraq “not to Allow Sinjar to become a second PKK base,” July 26, 2020. ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – On Sunday, supporters and members of the House of Yezidis (Ezidis) held a protest to demand that Iraq, and the international community more broadly, expel the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) from the Ezidi homeland of Sinjar (Shingal.)
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS EVENT : Second meeting in US-Iraq Strategic Dialogue this summer
Laurie Mylroie | KURDISTAN24 – July 22- 2020
The entrance of the US Embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone. (WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – Washington expects to hold a second session of the US-Iraq Strategic Dialogue later in the summer.
The first session of the dialogue was held in June by videoconference due to the coronavirus pandemic. Following that meeting, the US and Iraq issued a joint statement that said, “a Strategic Dialogue Higher Coordination Committee” would meet in Washington DC, “likely in July.”
DIVISIONS IN IRAQI KURDISTAN ARE COSTING THE UNITED STATES A RELIABLE PARTNER
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : SHAME & TROUBLE IN KURDISH FAMILY / WITH IRAN BOUND PUK PARTY
by Bilal Wahab PolicyWatch 3353 July 24, 2020 – If Kurdish leaders do not find a way to get beyond petty squabbles and into governing, they will be unable to pull the KRI out of its current nosedive or put their relationship with Washington on more solid ground.
On July 19, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) suspended its participation in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament, in effect shutting it down. The setback is only the latest example of local leaders trying to score political points while the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) reels under the serial shocks of financial crisis, coronavirus pandemic, and military raids by Iran and Turkey.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS ANALYSIS : Tightrope over the Tigris: Iraqi Prime Minister Reins in Iran-Backed Militiashe Tigris -Iraqi Prime Minister Reins in Iran-Backed Militias
Mustafa al-Kadhimi is intent on restoring the government’s sovereignty to all areas of Iraq. One of the challenges before him: the armed militias loyal to the regime of the ayatollahs. If he is able to rein in the activity of the Iranian-backed militias, this could have a positive influence on United States interests – and those of Israel
Yaron Schneider – INSS Insight No. 1351, July 22, 2020 – ISRAEL
Initial steps taken by the new Prime Minister of Iraq, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, indicate that he intends to restrain the elements that weaken and destabilize the country, among them the militias supported by Iran. These measures join other developments challenging the active presence of Iran and its proxies in Iraq: from demonstrations that refuse to die out, and have instead escalated following their violent suppression, to the killing of Soleimani, to Iran’s inability to persuade the political factions in the Iraqi parliament to support a pro-Iranian candidate for prime minister.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS REPORTS : Iraqi Kurds fear Turkey’s military campaign aims beyond PKK
Iraqi Kurds worry that Turkey’s pursuit of PKK militants inside Iraqi Kurdistan could result in a permanent Turkish military presence and moves to undermine their autonomous region.
An Iraqi kurdish woman confronts riot police as she takes part in a demonstration to denounce the Turkish assault in northern Iraq, in Sulaimaniyah city, in the Kurdish autonomous region of northern Iraq, on June 18, 2020. Turkey launched a rare ground assault into northern Iraq on June 17, deploying special forces against rebels from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is blacklisted by Ankara as a “terrorist” group.
Fehim Tastekin AL MONITOR – Jul 20, 2020
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INSIDE: THE JERUSALEM INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGY AND SECURITY
The Assassination of Hisham al-Hashimi: A Warning from Iraqi Shia Militias – by Dr. Jonathan Spyer
Killing of prominent adviser shows the determination of Iranian-backed Shia militias to resist any attempt to curtail their powers and freedom of action.
20.07.2020
The killing of Dr Hisham al-Hashimi by gunmen outside his home in the Zeyouneh neighborhood of east Baghdad on July 6 most likely represents a warning to Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi. As such, it is an event of a significance beyond the immediate loss of a prominent political analyst and scholar.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : KURDISCHE STATEMENTS & SALIH MUSLIMS NICHTE
Kurden im Irak weisen Vorwurf von syrisch-kurdischer Politikerfamilie zurück
AFPAFP20. Juli 2020Die kurdischen Behörden im Irak haben Berichte zurückgewiesen, wonach sie die Nichte des einflussreichen syrischen Kurdenpolitikers Saleh Muslim an die Türkei übergeben haben sollen. Das irakisch-kurdische Innenministerium in Erbil erklärte entsprechende Vorwürfe von Muslims Familie am Montag für unwahr.
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