Peshmerga: ready to face "Daash" and awaiting the order of Barzani to attack

Sunday, August 3rd, 2014 16:41
Peshmerga: ready to face "Daash" and awaiting the order of Barzani to attack

BAGHDAD / Baghdadi News / .. Ministry announced Albicherkh, Sunday, possession of troops enough kit and heavy weapons to counter gangs "Daash" terrorist, confirming that it was waiting for an order from the regional president Massoud Barzani to attack the areas outside the region and cleared of those bands.
The official said the media and the Ministry of Peshmerga Dean Hlkurd ruled in a statement to the site of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and seen by / Baghdadi News /, that "the Peshmerga forces currently have enough kit and heavy weapons for any confrontation," he "not getting weapons from outside the region."
He added that "the Peshmerga forces stationed in the Kurdish areas outside to manage the region is in a state of defense, until receiving an order by President Barzani to begin the attack," noting that "military commanders have full freedom to move the Peshmerga forces from areas where there is no fighting."
He ruled, "we have not received any weapons from abroad so far across the Erbil International Airport, and will be announced once they are received," pointing to "sustained fighting between the Peshmerga forces and gangs" Daash "within the limits of Sinjar."
The head of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani, had presented earlier request to allies to provide the region in arms, saying that he had formed a ministerial committee went to the U.S. for assistance to the Ministry of Peshmerga to enable them to fight Daash. Ended 21's

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Meanwhile........

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State Sunni insurgents have captured the northern Iraqi town of Zumar and a nearby oil field after a battle with Kurdish forces who had control of the area, witnesses said on Sunday.


Islamic State, which staged a lightning advance through northern Iraq in June, has warned residents of nearby villages along the border with Syria to leave their homes, suggesting they were planning an assault, witnesses said.

The militant group, which controls large swathes of northern and western Iraq, has threatened to march on Baghdad but has stalled its campaign just north of the town of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad.

But it has been trying to consolidate its gains, setting its sights on strategic towns near oilfields, as well as the border with Syria so that its fighters can move easily back and forth and bring in supplies.

An official in the Northern Oil Company said Islamic State fighters had taken control of the Ain Zalah oil field and a nearby refinery. The insurgents had already seized four oil fields, which help fund their operations.

In a statement on its website, Islamic State said its fighters killed scores of Kurdish fighters in a 24-hour battle and then took over Zumar and 12 villages.

"Hundreds fled leaving vehicles and a huge number of weapons and munitions and the brothers control many areas," Islamic State said, including Zumar and "the area of Ain Zalah which is rich with oil.

"The fighters arrived in the border triangle between Iraq, Syria and Turkey," it said

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