Peshmerga builds defense lines near Erbil

Kurdish armed groups, through media contacts, report that in the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, the city of Erbil, they fear that the Iraqi army will continue to advance. Progress, as claimed in Iraqi Kurdistan, may continue after the success of Iraqi troops in Kirkuk. At the same time, some Kurdish commanders are openly accused, who actually refused to conduct military operations with the Iraqi army.

To prevent the Iraqi troops from carrying out a further offensive (to take control of Erbil as well), the armed forces of the Kurds are preparing defensive fortifications on the approaches to the city. The first line of fortifications is located approximately 35 km from Erbil. We are talking about trenches, dugouts and firing points located in organized shelters.

It is stated that after a few kilometers - closer to the city - the second line of fortifications is located. Work on it continues. Fighters of the so-called Peshmerga groups, including Kurdish women, participate in the creation of fortifications.

Against this background, Kurdish media claim that Iranian armed forces took control of several of the largest oil fields in the Kurdish territory. The Kurds claim that at the moment, the forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (KSIR) control the deposits several kilometers from Kirkuk. Just the other day in the United States decided to recognize this Iranian organization as terrorist. The statements about the IRGC at Kirkuk and the seizure of oil fields are clearly intended to increase interest in what is happening on the part of Washington.

Comments

[bagr69]

Another "good fellows" pulled the oil blanket over themselves ...
The market for American weapons still promises a long-term perspective.

[Teberii]

After the reform introduced, the Americans will have a free weapon, enough for everyone.

[Thrall]

I’m afraid that without detachments the Kurds will again run away wiping their tears on the trousers .

[79807420129]

The third part of the Merlezon ballet begins, bloody. The mattresses happily pat those and others on the shoulder, you fight between them there, and we throw up your arms, pay off with oil.

[Anarchist]

In the words of Sasha Bely, in the series The Brigade:
It happens when you play, and sometimes when you play ...

[Thrall]

Map of the territories that the Iraqi army liberated in 2 days during the operation against the Peshmerga militants.

[ukoft]

it would be right for them to break the border between Iraqi and Syrian Kurds. and go to the direct border with Turkey. strategically important and necessary.

[Livonetc]

Strongly however.
IRGC, but in the zone of exclusive interests of the minke whales!
Where is the super march SPAR?

[Herculesic]

As always, in Hollywood, on the set of the next "victory", somewhere and over someone!

[Egorovich]

Shiite Iraqi troops will not go to the original Kurdish territory.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: bagr69

Another "good fellows" pulled the oil blanket over themselves ... The US arms market still promises a long-term perspective.

Given that all Kurds in Syria, Iraq and Turkey will recruit more than 50 million people, the massacre in the name of American arms corporations can last forever.

[protoss]

each time the numbers are more and more.
about 30 million of them in all countries.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: protoss

each time the numbers are more and more.
about 30 million of them in all countries.

Also not true Let's get together at 40 According to the "Wiki" Kurds "at least 40 million."

[ilimnoz]

Apparently, the Kurds fought like that all the time - the United States agrees with ISIS to leave the Kurdish territories and the peshmerga type fights it with fights. and now they have retreated without a fight and are asking Washington to intervene. and the villages of the Ishilovites themselves were sooner given. Kurds with ISIS have more in common than Shiites.

[ukoft]

and there is. once the igil turned on erbil, so the peshmerga gave such a drape. then stopped. and so the Ishilovites always built them territory.

[voyaka uh]

"apparently the Kurds fought like that all the time" ////

This is judging by your personal opinion. Kurds knocked out
ISIS before American assistance, and before joining
Russia in the war. They have very efficient infantry, but
few heavy weapons.
I understand that the “fas” command was sent to the Kurds, but
Putin / Sechin in two ways can agree with them on
joint oil production, and then the mood of the forum sharply
will be replaced by the opposite.

[ilimnoz]

it’s clear that this is my opinion and I really appreciate the fighting qualities of the Kurds and other participants in the massacre. I’m talking about the fact that both of them have one roof and in this context their war is like a well-staged performance where only dissent are actually destroyed.

[ariman1]

no, he needs to pull a branch of the Turkish stream, but he still hasn’t designated an entry point .... so here the Russian Federation will do what they say - he will tell Erdogash to send Wagner and MTR to Kurdistan - and he will send ... for the locals he’ll compose a new cranberry about distant approaches

[kos2910]

Quote: voyaka uh

change to the opposite

Kurds have always been neutral. And yes - they defend their territories well. But the bet on amers is clearly losing, and in other countries they are clearly not welcome and are no longer fighting like that. Yes, and Iraqi Kurds and Syrian Kurds - different tribes, even somewhere opposed each other. The real solution to the problem is the federalization of Syria and Iraq. By the way, what about Palestine?

[Brut]

There was infa that Rosneft gas pipeline from Iraqi Kurdistan to Europe will stretch.

[Stirbjorn]

The meaning of the Iraqis to go further to Kurdistan ?! They got the disputed territories, and most importantly, Kirkuk oil - why now climb to where even Hussein could not do anything, and even his army was much stronger

[protoss]

The Syrian and Iraqi Kurds will soon be divided, the Ibrahim Khalil checkpoint will be taken away from them (as I understand it, along with the south road and the bridge across the tiger), the entire Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline too.

[ariman1]

Iraqis do not make sense, but there are Shiites, and they are Shiites, by definition with double loyalty, subordinate to the Ayatollah. Even if you are a Tunisian, but if the ayatollah orders, you will fight against your own homeland

[LAWNER]

Let them dig. It's time to restore irrigation canals.
The problem of the Kurds is that at the beginning of the collapse of Iraq and Syria, they hastened to declare themselves Independent. The regional government of Kurdistan, the Federation of Northern Syria did not create a country, but ministers. Parties and political movements 100500. They did not want to sit down at the negotiating table during the operation against Isis.
Hurried ..... Such energy had to be combined with government troops and after the war to reap the fruits of victory. And now they are (not a favorite word) Separatists. And they spread rot all of them and no one else. Who will not allow them to live in the Uncontrolled Territory of the Country !
Erbil in history has always been the center of the Kurdish autonomy of Iraq, I think it will remain so.
The self-proclaimed federation of northern Syria -100% kayuk. Such a hell to create bypassing the state, and even in the neighborhood of Turkey !!!!
Yes .... East is a delicate matter Trumpha !!!

[zivXP]

the Kurds decided to "turn on simpletons" - to grab land as much as they could and say that "this is all ours."

[padded jacket]

Quote: article
The Kurds claim that at the moment, deposits several kilometers from Kirkuk control the forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

I strongly doubt that there are many of them, although quite recently Iraqis and Iranians conducted joint maneuvers on the borders of Kurdistan after the referendum.

[ukoft]

In general, the Iraqi military got a good experience there in Syria and Iraq. how many generals they have died. such operations should be carried out against military units. Of course, there is no reb and razdeka radio and stuff. but still experience.

[alone]

Yes, at least 4 lines to build, no chance.

In terms of artillery, there are 5 Iraqi guns for every Kurdish gun. The complete lack of aviation and air defense by the Kurds does not bode well for them. And if it comes to full-scale hostilities, a TOS-1 battery salvo is all. There is no line and no defenders.