Patrick Cockburn reports from Mosul:
There has been a mounting number of clashes between predominantly Arab Iraqi army units and the Kurdish peshmerga forces along a 260-mile line that stretches diagonally across the northern third of Iraq, from Sinjar to Khanaqin in the south.
The tensions underpinning the conflict have always attracted less international attention than the [...]
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Iraq: The Next War
Posted in Iraq, Kurds, Mosul on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kurdish Troops Challenge Baghdad in Diyala
Posted in Iraq, Kurds on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No one except Missing Links seems to have noticed this:
Kurdish commanders Wednesday refused orders to pull their troops out of Kurdish-populated areas of ethnically divided Diyala province, challenging the authority of Baghdad.
The 4,000 strong brigade will withdraw only when ordered to do so by the president of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq, Massud [...]
