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Iraq

Joint Iraq, Kurdish brigade curtails ISIS activity in Kifri: Mayor

2025-02-02

[Rudaw] The joint deployment of Iraqi and Kurdish forces has curtailed Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) activities in the Kurdistan Region’s southernmost reaches, once a hotbed of jihadist activity because of a security gap, the local mayor said on Saturday.

"The movement of armed fighters and sleeper cells of ISIS has ceased in the Kifri border areas, especially after the deployment of a joint brigade regiment equipped with surveillance cameras and advanced security devices, which has had a significant positive impact on eliminating ISIS fighters' movements," Kifri mayor Sahir Ali told Rudaw.

Kifri is part of Sulaimani’s Garmiyan administration and borders federally-held areas. Erbil and Baghdad are working together to close a security vacuum that exists between their areas of control and allows ISIS forces of Evil space to manoeuvre.

Ali said that additional Peshmerga forces are present in the area, particularly in the borders of Nawjul, Ghara, Kariz, and other locations, and that "this provides reassurance to people."

A commander of Peshmerga forces in Garmiyan told Rudaw on the condition of anonymity that "Each Peshmerga brigade in this border has been assigned a specific area to oversee security. Some of these designated areas fall within security vacuum zones."

"Currently, about 80% of the security gaps in Garmiyan have been filled and the majority of these areas are now secured by Peshmerga forces," the commander added. "A joint brigade regiment is stationed on the Garmiyan border, which has been effective, but there remains a security gap of approximately eight to 10 kilometers between this regiment and the Popular Mobilization Forces that hasn't been filled."

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