15-Oct-17 World View -- Armies and militias fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria increasingly turn on each other

[John]

15-Oct-17 World View -- Armies and militias fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria increasingly turn on each other

Syria demands 'immediately' pullout of Turkey's forces from Idlib province

** 15-Oct-17 World View -- Armies and militias fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria increasingly turn on each other
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ ... tm#e171015


Contents:
Mattis and Tillerson work to prevent Iraq vs Kurd military confrontation in Kirkuk
ISIS fighters permitted to leave Raqqa, Syria, with human shields
Syria demands 'immediately' pullout of Turkey's forces from Idlib province


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, KRG,
Popular Mobilization Unit, PMU, Kirkuk, Mosul, Peshmerga,
Islamic State / of Iraq and Syria/Sham/the Levant, IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh
Rex Tillerson, Jim Mattis, Sami Hamdi, Mayadeen,
Syria, Raqqa, Syrian Democratic Forces, SDF,
Deir Ezzor, Deir al-Zour, Deir ez-Zor, Deir Azzour,
Bashar al-Assad, Turkey, Idlib, Astana, Kazakhstan,
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, HTS

[Guest]

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) says that Iraqi army troops and fighters from the Shia Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU, Hashd al-Shaabi) militias are massed on the border of the city of Kirkuk, which has been controlled by the Shia Peshmerga militias since 2014, when they evicted the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) from the city. There have already been some conflicts between Iraqi troops and Peshmerga in villages south of Kirkuk in the last few days.

Actually, the Peshmerga is Sunni not Shia. John probably just mistyped that.

[John]

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) says that Iraqi army troops and fighters from the Shia Popular Mobilization Unit (PMU, Hashd al-Shaabi) militias are massed on the border of the city of Kirkuk, which has been controlled by the Shia Peshmerga militias since 2014, when they evicted the so-called Islamic State (IS or ISIS or ISIL or Daesh) from the city. There have already been some conflicts between Iraqi troops and Peshmerga in villages south of Kirkuk in the last few days.

Actually, the Peshmerga is Sunni not Shia. John probably just mistyped that.

Thanks for the correction. I changed "Shia" to "Kurdish," which is what I intended.