SDF Commander-in-Chief calls for coordination with KRG against ISIS
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander-in-Chief, Mazloum Abdi, stressed, on Tuesday, the need to strengthen security and military coordination and cooperation with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRG) against the Islamic State Organization (ISIS).
This came in a tweet by Abdi following the ISIS attacks against Peshmerga forces in the KRG over the past days.
“We follow with extreme concern the attacks against the Peshmerga forces and the KRG by the terrorist ISIS,” Abdi said.
A joint military force of the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga will deploy to secure a village in north of Kirkuk after it was attacked by the ISIS, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced, on Monday.
The statement denied what was circulated by some media and social networking sites about ISIS burning a number of citizens’ homes in the village.
The Ministry of Peshmerga announced, on Sunday, that a number of its members had been killed in an ISIS attack on the village of Qara Salem, north of Kirkuk.
On November 2, ISIS launched a violent attack on the village of Khedr Jija in Makhmur district. Three civilians (brothers) and ten Peshmerga members were killed.
Last week, the Garmiyan areas in south of Sulaymaniyah, was attacked three times by the extremist jihadists ISIS, where seven Peshmerga members were killed and others were wounded.
Last week, the Secretary-General of the Ministry of Peshmerga in the Kurdistan Regional Government, Jabar Yawar, revealed that 4,657 people were killed, wounded and kidnapped, both civilians and fighters, as victims of 1,162 ISIS operations in Iraq from the beginning of 2018 until the end of October of this year, 2021.