Kurdish forces battle ISIS, blasts kill 47 in Baghdad

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Shawan BarzinjiBasNews, Erbil

A Yazidi Militia group has clashed with Islamic State (IS) Militants near Sinjar in Northern Iraq and has killed 24 Jihadi militants.

Khudida Kicho, a member of the Yazidi Militia Group, said in a press conference in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan that Yazidi gunmen have attacked IS insurgents near Sinjar resulting in the deaths of scores of extremist insurgents.

“In the Kahbel area near Sinjar our fighters were able to attack IS Militants and kill 24 of them,” said Kicho.

He said that alongside the deaths they have destroyed three Humvees that were left in the area by IS insurgents.

“In the clashes three of our fighters were killed as well, but we will continue to fight terrorists until the end,” added Kicho.

The Yazidi Militia Group was formed after IS militants captured Sinjar earlier this month. Their initial aim was to protect Yazidi refugees on Sinjar mountain.

 

[atatwolf]

GERMANY AGAINST AN INDEPENDENT KURDISH STATE IN IRAQ

• AFP
• Updated : 17.08.2014 14:56:16
• Published : 17.08.2014 13:37:00

BERLIN – Germany is opposed to the formation of an independent state by Iraq's Kurds, who are currently battling ISIS (self-proclaimed Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) militants with Western help, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Sunday.

"An independent Kurdish state would further destabilise the region and trigger new tensions, maybe with the neighbouring Iraqi state as well," he told the Bild newspaper in an interview.

The aim, he added, "was to manage to preserve Iraq's territorial integrity".

Kurdistan, in northern Iraq, is already an autonomous region. Its fighters are being backed by US airpower and Western arms deliveries in the fight against ISIS militants.

Steinmeier, who returned from the region on Saturday, welcomed the looming change of government in Baghdad as "maybe the last chance for the unity of the Iraqi state".

Another German news publication, Der Spiegel, cited government sources as saying Germany was ready to back an international military intervention in northern Iraq, but only under the aegis of the United Nations.

So far, no such UN authorisation has been given, though the Security Council has adopted a resolution aimed at squeezing ISIS.

 

[KingMamba]

Stoning of Du'a Khalil Aswad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
more liberal and accepting my as a-
bla bla bla-
Their best shot of creating a country for themselves will result in probably lot more deaths-
wondering why it would be all hunky dory and accepted and wondering how long we have till it becomes another extremists problem for the world--

Kurds know they have to act all secular in order to garner international support, once they have their own country than they will make it more in line with their line of thinking. Remember in Turkey the Kurdish areas are the most conservative in the whole country.

 

[Hussein]

As always in Europe, they are the Germans who act the smartest

 

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GERMANY AGAINST AN INDEPENDENT KURDISH STATE IN IRAQ

Same stance Turkey, Iran and the US has so Iraq is stuck with them.