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SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ) – More Iraqi Troops Deployed to Sinjar: Commander

BasNews – 06/06/2018 – 14:03 – More Iraqi Troops Deployed to Sinjar: Commander

ERBIL – More Iraqi forces have been deployed to Sinjar without any clear reasons, said a Peshmerga commander on Wednesday.  Peshmerga commander Qasim Shasho told BasNews that the new troops have started constructing a siege around the city “so that they can have full control over the city and do not let any further forces to enter the region”.

He said that the Iraqi army and Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militias have stationed military bases inside and outside Sinjar. In October, last year, the two forces entered the Kurdish disputed territories, including Sinjar in a military incursion and forced the Peshmerga forces to withdraw from the area. www.mesop.de