Clashes between Baghdad and Erbil after attacks by marches on a Peshmerga headquarters...

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[size=52]Clashes between Baghdad and Erbil after attacks by marches on a Peshmerga headquarters...[/size]

[size=45]Barzani called on Al-Sudani to “take practical measures” to deter armed groups.
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US Army vehicles at the Harir base near Erbil Airport (US Army)
December 31, 2023 AD - Jumada al-Akhir 17, 1445 AH.
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, issued an order to open an investigation. Comprehensive about the attack by two drones on the headquarters of the Kurdish security forces in Erbil Governorate in the north of the country, and the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government said that it resulted in material damage, accusing “outlaw groups funded by the federal government” of carrying it out.[/size]
[size=45]This attack, which has not yet been claimed, comes at a time when American forces and the international coalition forces to combat ISIS have been subjected to more than a hundred attacks with missiles and drones since mid-October, that is, ten days after the outbreak of war in Gaza between Israel and the movement. agitation".[/size]
[size=45]The Kurdistan Regional Government said in a statement that “one of the headquarters of the Peshmerga forces in the Salah al-Din district of Erbil” was attacked “last night, at approximately 11:45 p.m., by two drones.” He added that the attack did not result in casualties, leaving only material damage.[/size]
[size=45]The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, said in his “X” position that “the federal government must view any attack on the Kurdistan region as an attack on all of Iraq and confront it with appropriate measures.” Continued inaction will encourage these perpetrators to continue committing their crimes.”
Barzani urged Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani to “take practical and effective measures to deter these groups, hold them accountable, and reassert the state’s control over the lands that are used as a launching pad for these attacks.” Barzani said: “These people are exploiting the state’s funds and weapons to attack the Kurdistan region and destabilize the entire country, which exposes it to the risk of reigniting the conflict in a country that has experienced enough bloodshed.”[/size]
[size=45]Later, a statement from the Security Media Cell in the Iraqi Joint Operations Command stated that the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces “directed the security services to open a comprehensive investigation into the criminal attack on the Salah al-Din resort in Erbil Governorate, with a plane last night, at a location where there are units of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region Guard forces.” ».
According to the statement, “the security services, in coordination with the security services in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, were assigned to follow up the investigation to uncover the circumstances and data of the attack in order to reach the results required to determine the implementing party and the goals of the escalation that affects national sovereignty and attempts to tamper with internal security and stability.”[/size]
[size=45]The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government accused “outlaw elements” of carrying out the attack “with the help and support of mercenaries,” considering it a “dangerous gesture.”[/size]
[size=45]Kurdistan Regional Government spokesman Peshwa Hormani said, “This terrorist attack carried out by an outlaw force with the help of their collaborators on a Peshmerga headquarters is considered a dangerous and provocative matter.”[/size]
[size=45]Erbil held the “federal government” responsible “because these outlaw groups are funded by the federal government.” She added that these groups “move with the knowledge of the Iraqi government, transport weapons, missiles, and drones, and carry out terrorist attacks against official and military sites, while the Iraqi government is silent and does not move to take action against them, but it does not hesitate to cut off the dues of the people of Kurdistan and fund these groups with this money.”[/size]
[size=45]Hormani called on the Iraqi federal government to punish “these groups. We reserve our right to respond in a timely manner, and we call on all friends and parties not to be silent about this terrorist act and to support us in any response we deem appropriate.”[/size]
[size=45]In addition, the Iraqi government spokesman, Basem Al-Awadi, criticized the Kurdistan Region’s statement. He said in a statement that one of the government's duties is to maintain security and stability and does not differentiate between its citizens. Al-Awadi said, “The federal government expresses its astonishment at the statement of the spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq,” pointing out that it “contained various unrealistic and irresponsible accusations, due to the mixture of misleading information and false lies contained therein.”[/size]
[size=45]He added, "What was issued represents an unjustified bias against the constitutional authorities, and their exclusive responsibility to protect the country's sovereignty, and we affirm that rushing to make judgments and making statements that lack accuracy," warning that they "contribute to the complexity of the political and governmental scene."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Awadi described the statements of the regional government spokesman as “unconstructive, harmful to the state of political and social stability, and inconsistent with the government’s policy, approach and national program, in which it committed itself to defending the interests of Iraqis in all parts of Iraq and without distinction.”[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out that "one of its duties is the federal government to maintain security and stability throughout Iraq and does not differentiate between its citizens. It has already taken a number of measures and opened an investigation into the recent attack to uncover its circumstances. Such statements complicate the course of the investigation that was entrusted to the federal security authorities, in coordination with the competent authorities." In the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq.[/size]
[size=45]He continued: “The Iraqi government renews its position rejecting attacks targeting any Iraqi land, whether in the region or the rest of the governorates, and confirms its continued pursuit of those involved. In order to hand them over to the judiciary to receive their just punishment.”
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A photo distributed by the Kurdistan Region Counter-Terrorism Service of the march that was shot down by the defenses of the Harir military base near Erbil last October 18.
Washington has so far counted more than 106 attacks against its forces in Iraq and Syria since October 17, that is, ten days after the outbreak of the war in Gaza, according to the tally. An American military official reported it. Most of these attacks were claimed by the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq,” which includes armed militias loyal to Iran and linked to the Popular Mobilization Forces.[/size]
[size=45]These militias say that their attacks come in response to American support for Israel in its war against the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, which began with an unprecedented attack by Hamas in Israel on October 7.
Erbil - Baghdad: “Asharq Al-Awsat”[/size]
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