Ll Pentagon reiterated that the raid aimed at supporting the efforts for
humanitarian aid and to protect the us staff. If the jihadists they managed to
skip the dam, there would be consequences devastating environmental
WASHINGTON - THE american aviation continues to hit locations jihadiste with raids which,
according to sources of television panaraba Al Jazeera, they are the "heavier"
from the beginning of the intervention, 8 August. Kurdish sources refer to nine
attacks carried out by aircraft and drones against the stations of the Is that
control the strategic dam of Mosul on the Tigris River, the largest of Iraq,
which allows you to irrigate the entire plain of Nineveh. Subsequently, the
Kurdish Peshmerga militants would launch an offensive on the ground taking "the
control of the east side of the dam," he said at the Afp the kurdish general
Abdel Rahman Korini. According to a source of police of the province of Nineveh,
the Kurdish Peshmerga militants have also included the control of the area of
Batnaah, north of Mosul, rejecting the militias of the Islamic Army. While the
Ministry of Defense of Baghdad argues that a column of 30 armoured cars of the
Is was destroyed. The objective news of the Kurds and regain control of the dam: if
the jihadists could saute, there would be environmental consequences
devastating. This is a directly news from Iraq.
The Pentagon has confirmed that the raid aimed at supporting the efforts for
humanitarian aid and to protect the staff uses. The answer is it was not made to
wait for: the jihadists have done skip the bridge of Fadiliyah, located 45
kilometers north-east of the city of Hilla, the capital of the Governorate of Le
Babil, 100 kilometers from Baghdad. The news was reported to the agency Nova a
source of Iraqi security. The source added that there are raids by the
terrorists in the areas of the villages around the bridge, which were supervised
by patrols of the regular army. AND also be combated in Syria, where in the last
two weeks, have been killed 700 members of the Sunni tribes Chaitat, which
rebels against the authority of the Is. The war planes of the Syrian government
have made today at least 19 attacks against targets of the Islamic state in
Syria in northern stronghold of Raqqa and the surrounding region, killing
between 11 and 16 militants. The relate the local committees of coordination and
the Syrian Observatory for human rights. On the international level, we should
remember that on 15 August the UN Security Council has unanimously approved a
resolution with measures that should impede the funding and the supply of arms
to the Is. And on the same day the extraordinary European Council has said it is
the supply of weapons to curdi.continua to remain dramatic the situation of tens
of thousands of refugees, including many Christians as well as Who Have Been
that you are to be repaid in the autonomous region of Kurdistan. "Let us not
forget the cry of Christians and of each population persecuted in Iraq," said
Pope Francis from Seoul, persuasively in a tweet:
Sunday, August 17, 2014
Iraq, the fighting continues. New air attacks us in Erbil and dam of Mosul
5:31 AM
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