MESOP : STRONG OPPOSITION – YPG has not prevented Peshmerga going to Shingal: KDP spokesman

27-8-2014 – Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Spokesman Ja’afar Imenki denied reports that the Syrian Kurdish forces have prevented Peshmerga forces to enter Shingal, the city that fell to the control of the Islamic militants and they massacred thousands of people in the city.

Rudaw had reported earlier that the Syrian Kurdish forces of People Defense Units (YPG) have opposed a US-Kurdistan Region joint plan to attack the terrorists in Shingal and release the city, the main residence of Yazidis, a religious minority in the north of Iraq.   He, however, said such possible events should not repeat again and all political parties should be united in this regard. The KDP official went on to say that some US official in Kurdistan Region’s city of Dohuk are making plans to attack the IS militants in Shingal and release the city.