MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : ISIS / DAESH STILL EFFECTIVE IN IRAQ / KURDISTAN
Militiamen killed in massive, multi-pronged ISIS attack in central Iraq
Khrush Najari | 2 May 2020 – ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – In the early hours of Saturday, members of the so-called Islamic State launched a multi-pronged offensive against positions held by Popular Mobilization Force (PMF) militia units in the central Iraqi province of Salahuddin. The attacks have resulted in at least ten deaths among various Iraqi forces, as per preliminary reporting.
Remnants of the terrorist organization attacked militia positions from four main locations in rural parts of Salahuddin, specifically in Tikrit, Samarra, al-Dur, and Balad, according to multiple Iraqi media reports that cited local officials.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS: NOBODY CARES ABOUT CHRISTIANS IN SOUTH KURDISTAN / IRAQ
Nineveh Plains Transitional Justice Report: April
By Claire Evans International Christian Concern – Posted 2020-04-30 23:20 GMT
While COVID-19 dominates most of daily life in the Nineveh Governorate, sectarian tensions are further defining the landscape. Residents report competing mandates between the governorate and checkpoints operated by the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). A fracture within the PMF could further engrain Iranian influence in Nineveh and deepen the governorate’s disputed status. Meanwhile, Shabak activism has increased regarding their growing presence near Christian areas. Christians are negotiating their role with the immigration portfolio in Iraq’s government.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS PKK STATEMENT SOUTH KURDISTAN / QANDIL – KCK-Erklärung zu Zînê Wertê: Wir zeigen uns verantwortlich
Die KCK hat auf die zahlreichen Aufrufe reagiert, dass der innerkurdische Konflikt in Zînê Wertê am Rande des Qendîl-Gebirges in Südkurdistan über einen politischen Dialog gelöst werden muss. – ANF BEHDÎNAN – Montag, 27 Apr 2020, 13:25
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : KURDISTAN IRAQ / BARZANI = MORE TRADE WITH IRAN! MORE CORONA INFECTIONS !
Kurdistan Region reopens two border crossings with Iran
Hiwa Shilani | 28 April 2020 – The international border crossing of Bashmakh on the Kurdistan Region and Iran border.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Interior announced the reopening of two border crossings with Iran starting from April 28.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FOCUS : PM Barzani: Iraq cutting KRG share of budget ‘illegal’
Hiwa Shilani | KURDISTAN24 – 27 4. 2020 – Masrour Barzani (Right) Prime Minister of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) with Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Iraq, April 27. 2020.
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – On Monday, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani stated that the federal Iraqi government must not use the autonomous region’s financial entitlements and employees’ salaries as a “political pressure” tool, describing the move as “illegal.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : Cheap oil is latest threat to Kurdish region
The Kurdistan region is challenged by the incredibly low oil prices, so that its 250,000 barrels of exports are worth far less than any money it expected to get from Baghdad.
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN – JERUSALEM POST – APRIL 27, 2020 14:41
The Kurdistan autonomous region of Iraq is threatened by low oil prices as Iraq’s central government remains in crisis and budget debates continue. Baghdad is supposed to provide the Kurdish region a seventeen percent share of the Iraqi budget but has systematically cut it since 2014, alleging that crises in Baghdad and the war on ISIS made it difficult to pay the Kurds their fair share.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS „GOOD NEWS“ : Iraqis in US, German courtrooms held for extremist crimes
Laurie Mylroie | KURDISTAN24 – Fallujah, Iraq. (Photo: US Marine Corps)
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – Two men from Iraq faced cases in two courts this month: in two different countries, six thousand miles apart, and thousands of miles from their homes in Fallujah.
Both were involved in violence in Iraq carried out in the name of Islam, although it is questionable whether they were motivated to kill because of their religious beliefs or whether that was a convenient cover for other motives—like a struggle for power and economic resources in post-2003 Iraq or a drive to exercise vicious domination over others.
United States
A detention hearing for one Iraqi – Ali Yousef Ahmed al-Nouri – was scheduled for April 7 in Phoenix, Arizona.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SOUTH KURDISTAN – IRAQ : KDP – BARZANI STRONGER FORCES CONTRA QUANDIL PKK
Roj news (PKK source) : KDP is stationed in Zînî wartê, despite warnings
Local sources told Roj News that the Kurdistan Democratic Forces have strengthened their presence in separate areas in the vicinity of Zînî wartê, despite warnings issued by Kurdish forces.KURDISTAN 25 Apr 2020, Sat – 13:57 2020-04-25T13:57:00 NEWS DESK
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SOUTH KURDISTAN: TURKISH ARMY CONTRA PKK / WHAT HAPPENED IN HAKURKE ? / VIDEO
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- 21h 26 Apr 2020
#Turkish army walking around in #Xwakurk #Erbil Province like it’s their backyard, capturing #PKK. We thought #KDP was in bed w Turkey but in fact Turkey has the whole KingSize bed whilst KDP is in the guest sofa, in the basement, in their own home! Turkey is in #Control of KDP!
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MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : In Northeastern Syria, Christians Are Caught Between War Planes and COVID-19
By Maria Lozano – Aid to the Church in Need – 24 April 2020
Before the Syrian civil war, more than 20,000 Christian families lived in the Al-Jazeera region, on the border with Turkey in northeastern Syria. Many of these Christians are the descendants of those who fled the genocide of the Armenians in 1915 in Turkey or Kurdish attacks in the neighboring Iraqi area of Duhok in 1933. Today, only an estimated between 7000 and 8000 families remain. An unknown number of Christians have left in the wake of Turkey’s October 2019 invasion of the region.
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