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| Iraqi Yazidis need 10.000 fighters to protect borders with Syria |
| 2018-04-22 |
| Sinjar (IraqiNews.com) An Iraqi Yazidi official has said their area west of the country needs thousands of fighters to protect the borders with Syria, predicting hundreds to be incorporated in the Iraqi army. Xudeda Cuke, mayor of Sanoni, Sinjar, told Ayn AlIraq news website that Sinjar region "needs 10.000 fighters to protect border regions, including Sinjar", adding that "we predict that the government will approve to enroll 300 Yazidis in the police and army forces". Cuke denied reports that 500 Yazidis have been already enlisted in the official Iraqi forces. Last week, secretary-general of the Iraqi cabinet, Mahdi al-Allaq, said the government approved to incorporate Yazidi factions in Sinjar into the defenese and interior ministry forces, as well as into the Popular Mobilization Forces. In March, Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) said in an earlier statement it announced withdrawing from the mainly-Yazidi region of Sinjar, saying it accomplished its mission of protecting the locals from IS bully boyz whose defeat the Iraqi government declared last December. |
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