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    Iraq paramilitaries battle Kurds in push towards Turkish border oil hub

    Iraqi pro-government paramilitaries launched an offensive against Kurdish troops on Tuesday near the Turkish frontier, pushing towards a strategic border crossing and oil export pipeline hub that Baghdad says must come under its control.

    The Iraqi government has transformed the balance of power in the north of the country since launching a campaign last week to seize back territory from the Kurds, who govern an autonomous region of three northern provinces and had also seized a swathe of other territory in northern Iraq.

    The Kurds held a referendum on independence last month that Baghdad called illegal. Baghdad responded by seizing back the city of Kirkuk, the oil-producing areas around it, and other territory that the Kurds had captured from Islamic State.

    Prime Minister Haidar Abadi has ordered his army to recapture all disputed territory, and has also demanded central control of Iraq's border crossings with Turkey, all of which are inside the Kurdish autonomous region itself.

    A Kurdish official said Kurdish security forces known as Peshmerga had successfully beaten back an advance by Iranian-backed pro-government paramilitaries in the region of Rabi'a, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the Fish-Khabur border area.

    Fish-Khabur is strategically vital because oil from both Kurdish and government-held parts of northern Iraq cross at a pipeline there into Turkey, the main route out of the area for international export, crucial for any Kurdish independence bid.

    The fighting so far has taken place outside the Kurdish autonomous region, but Fish-Khabur is located within it, so any assault on the border crossing would mark a major escalation, bringing government troops into undisputed Kurdish territory.

    An Iraqi military spokesman denied there had been any clashes in the area. But an Iraqi security source in Baghdad and a rights activist in northwest Iraq said the confrontation had started at dawn and was still going on by midday.

    "Peshmerga repelled the attack and pushed Popular Mobilisation back in to Rabi'a," tweeted KRG President Masoud Barzani's media advisor, Hemin Hawrami. A military spokesman in Baghdad said in response: "There are no clashes."

    The fighting between the central government and the Kurds is particularly tricky for the United States which is close allies of both sides, arming and training both the Kurds and the central government's army to fight against Islamic State.

    U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Baghdad this week, but Abadi rebuffed his call for Iraq to reject the role of Iran-backed Shi'ite paramilitaries that fight alongside government troops and have taken a hard line on the Kurds.

    On Monday, an official of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) security council said Iraqi government forces and Iranian-backed Popular Mobilisation paramilitaries were deploying tanks and artillery in Rabi'a, northwest of Mosul.

    An Iraqi government security advisor said on Monday Baghdad aimed to bring the three-way border crossing with Turkey and Syria at Fish-Khabur under its control, but he declined to say if a military move was being prepared.

    The Syrian side of the border there is under the control of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces.
    The Iraqi government's advance over the past week has been achieved with comparatively little violence, with Kurds mostly withdrawing without a fight.

    Nevertheless, Amnesty International reported that at least 11 civilians were killed and tens of thousands displaced from Kurdish areas of Tuz Khurmato, a town south of Kirkuk. It said images, videos, photos and dozens of testimonies indicated that hundreds of properties had been looted in a rampage targeting Kurdish parts of the ethnically mixed town.

    https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/24/iraq...r-oil-hub.html
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    Turks are the only hope for Middle East against the non-stoping Kurdish aggression. May the God be with us.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manzikert View Post
    Turks are the only hope for Middle East against the non-stoping Kurdish aggression. May the God be with us.
    The Shia Arab forces made the hopes of Kurdistan to be a shattered dream. Well don't forget the regional rivals for the first time have united against the Kurds, these are Turkey, Iran, and the Gulf states. Soon the autonomy that was given to them, might be taken away, based on the actions of Haider Al-abadi and how many Shia Arabs want the North to stay with Iraq. What is important is the conquering of the oil reserves, because this would make sure that Kurdistan would be dream, because it would not be economically viable, and plus the Iraqi government wants to use that oil. Everyone became against the KRG, simply due to it's deals with Israel for oil, once this was found it's allies in the Gulf states changed their tunes, because their oil markets would have been crushed. Today the Shia Arabs are also trying to play the pan-Arab card. They have gotten experience with fighting with the Sunni Arab tribals in the Western region, and they could not subdue them, but not the even the Americans could. However the situation in Kurdistan is more important. Actually before the Kurds, the western regions declared their independence, and became ruled by tribal sheikhs, this why Baghdad before tried to subdue the Western regions, however, Baghdad decided to give as much power in that region for the tribal council, and to let them be, because the Western regions don't offer a new geopolitical strategy, despite having gas and other natural resources. There is talks about reconciliation, with the Kurdish region it's different ball game, because they are allied with outside forces like Israel, well the Western region is only allied with the Gulf states and Turkey, they abhor the Anglo-Americans, Israelis, and Europeans to be honest.
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    I read news that Iraq would open a new custom office at the Turkish border so armed forces are advancing to the north.

    Iraqi Army re-gained my respect after long time since Gulf War.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adsız View Post
    I read news that Iraq would open a new custom office at the Turkish border so armed forces are advancing to the north.

    Iraqi Army re-gained my respect after long time since Gulf War.
    The Iraqi Army still needs a lot of tune up. After the Anglo-American and their European lackeys barbarically destroyed Iraq, the Iraqi army was heavily weakened, and not like before. It was not lead by strong commanders anymore as it used to be. Iraq's army was the strongest in the Middle East, and hence it was to be weakened for the sake of Israel and plundering the black gold typical of White Westerners. Also the Iraqi army became weaker during the reign of Maliki, but it seems things have changed when you have leader actually trying to recover his broken nation like Al-Abadi. Iraq will eventually rebuild itself, but there are forces that don't want it, because it will be powerful nation. The former Iraqi army were mostly lead by people from the Western regions of Iraq, who are known to be very tough people and will fight to the death, this why the Anglo-American and European forces had a very difficult time subduing that region. You should have seen how cowardly they were. Now if Al-abadi does filter sectarianism and brings the Western regions to the political process, the game will be over for independence in the North. So far like I have said the Western regions are trying to gain trust of the central government but are staying neutral. The Iraqi army will be improved if it will be dominated again by people from the Western regions. Some North Iraqi Arabs have allied with the Kurds, because they are still bitter about the Sunni-Arab and Shia Arab civil war, but they are a small minority, the majority are also neutral, but honestly the alienation was mostly created by the Shia Arab themselves and Iran. Take Iran's mullahs away, this conflict would not have happened in the first place. Iran does not want to see the Western regions being independent, simply it will be cut off from the Levant, and it does not want Kurdistan to be independent, because it will cause the minorities to be emboldened Arabs, Balochies, and so on. This not mention the Shia Arab regions for the most part did not fight the Anglo-Americans, until later, unlike the Western regions who made it clear to the Anglo-Americans and their European lackeys that they are not welcome and nor they will be welcomed here.Not to mention the Western regions only declared independence, because of Al-Maliki's brutal regime and his death squads. The guy was pure scum a puppet of Anglo-Americans and the Mullah's a disgusting individual. He could not subdue the Western regions, unlike what happened in the North where Al-abadi had subdued and even conquered lands. The Western regions don't mind being in Iraq as long they have fair representation, and hence why they are still part of Iraq, and hence they are having talks. Plus everyone in Iraq knows that people from the Western regions are quite warrior like.

    If it was not for the Anglo-American barbarians, we would have conquered Kuwait and all of the Arabian peninsula, and made a united Arabia, but that would be seen as threat, we would nationalize the oil.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nabatea1 View Post
    The Iraqi Army still needs a lot of tune up. After the Anglo-American and their European lackeys barbarically destroyed Iraq, the Iraqi army was heavily weakened, and not like before. It was not lead by strong commanders anymore as it used to be. Iraq's army was the strongest in the Middle East, and hence it was to be weakened for the sake of Israel and plundering the black gold typical of White Westerners. Also the Iraqi army became weaker during the reign of Maliki, but it seems things have changed when you have leader actually trying to recover his broken nation like Al-Abadi. Iraq will eventually rebuild itself, but there are forces that don't want it, because it will be powerful nation. The former Iraqi army were mostly lead by people from the Western regions of Iraq, who are known to be very tough people and will fight to the death, this why the Anglo-American and European forces had a very difficult time subduing that region. You should have seen how cowardly they were. Now if Al-abadi does filter sectarianism and brings the Western regions to the political process, the game will be over for independence in the North. So far like I have said the Western regions are trying to gain trust of the central government but are staying neutral. The Iraqi army will be improved if it will be dominated again by people from the Western regions. Some North Iraqi Arabs have allied with the Kurds, because they are still bitter about the Sunni-Arab and Shia Arab civil war, but they are a small minority, the majority are also neutral, but honestly the alienation was mostly created by the Shia Arab themselves and Iran. Take Iran's mullahs away, this conflict would not have happened in the first place. Iran does not want to see the Western regions being independent, simply it will be cut off from the Levant, and it does not want Kurdistan to be independent, because it will cause the minorities to be emboldened Arabs, Balochies, and so on. This not mention the Shia Arab regions for the most part did not fight the Anglo-Americans, until later, unlike the Western regions who made it clear to the Anglo-Americans and their European lackeys that they are not welcome and nor they will be welcomed here.Not to mention the Western regions only declared independence, because of Al-Maliki's brutal regime and his death squads. The guy was pure scum a puppet of Anglo-Americans and the Mullah's a disgusting individual. He could not subdue the Western regions, unlike what happened in the North where Al-abadi had subdued and even conquered lands. The Western regions don't mind being in Iraq as long they have fair representation, and hence why they are still part of Iraq, and hence they are having talks. Plus everyone in Iraq knows that people from the Western regions are quite warrior like.

    If it was not for the Anglo-American barbarians, we would have conquered Kuwait and all of the Arabian peninsula, and made a united Arabia, but that would be seen as threat, we would nationalize the oil.
    lol@'we' would have conquered. Nigga, you live in Canada. This ain't no pokemon duel or whatever you call it.

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