Pentagon: operation to free hostages in Iraq was held with the participation of the Kurds

In the liberation of the hostages in Iraq, along with the US military, fighters from the Kurdish militia Peshmerga participated, reports RIA News Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook.

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About 70-hostages, incl. 20 Iraqi military, released during an operation in northern Iraq near the city of Khoizha. One American soldier was killed, four militiamen were injured.

“The US forces provided a helicopter and escorted the Iraqi Peshmerga forces to the site,” Cook said. - Iraqis detained five terrorists from the Islamic State group, several terrorists were killed. In addition, the US received important intelligence information about the IG. ”

According to him, the American "soldier died from injury, despite the medical assistance provided to him."

Representatives of Kurdistan confirmed the information, adding that 5, and 6 Islamists were not detained. According to their data, a total of 69 people were released.

Comments

[Vitaly Anisimov]

USA suddenly began to praise the Kurds .... Erdogan? Aw ...

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: MIKHAN

.. Erdogan? Aw ...

In some incomprehensibility he thinks he is sitting.

[Eugene-Eugene]

Erdogan will definitely demolish the tower

[Now we are free]

States campaign decided to bet on the Kurds ...
So what?
-IHIL openly and even undisguisedly support as it is not comme il faut for yesterday at the "Valdai" V.V.P. He spoke very clearly about the fact that the United States is making a big mistake by supplying ATGMs to the "Moderate Opposition", and if the United States starts supplying MANPADS, then some "Moderate rebels" will shoot down a couple of American planes / helicopters from the Stingers ...
-AnNusra and Co. the same story as with ISIS (see paragraph above)
-There are Kurds, who were kind of given to Erdogan to be torn apart, and then suddenly they again turned out to be "Good guys" ...
Most likely the US will act as a proverb -The tender calf of two heifers sucks ... See what Erdogan can do for them or what the Kurds can offer them. At the moment, the ball on the field of Erdogan (After a similar joint operation of the US Armed Forces and the Kurds), what will you offer your Mr. Erdogan to be allowed to ram the Kurds again? If nothing, then the Kurds will already officially become a conductor of American interests in Syria and in northern Iraq, as opposed to Assad and the too freedom-loving Iraqi government ...

[Eugene-Eugene]

igil7 and this is what

[Hello]

Quote: Alexander Romanov

In some incomprehensibility he thinks he is sitting.

So these are Iraqi Kurds, Turkey is friends with them too

[Eugene-Eugene]

Lord, how ridiculous this is, once again let's

[DIVAN SOLDIER]

Erdogan is a consumable for the United States, however, like the Kurds.

[Vend]

Oh Kurds, be afraid of mattress-beds, bringing gifts.

[Darkoff]

Kurds now any help is vital. No one else is in a hurry to provide it.
Neither one nor the other has a real alternative today.
Moreover, their relationship did not begin today. By removing Saddam, who was strangling them, the states did a great job to the Iraqi Kurds.

[venaya]

Quote: MIKHAN

USA suddenly began to praise the Kurds ....

Other options gradually fall off, the Kurds real, almost independent power, staffers seem to put pressure on all the buttons, and this button is closer to the trump.

[Air Force captain]

They force the Kurds to dance to their tune .... if they start to dance, they will lose in the future in their sovereignty, even if the state organizes them in Bender
... and I would advise Iraq to reflect on the true goals of American aid and its prospects ..

[Sauron80]

The news seems to be good, they freed people, shot down the terrorists ... But given the American bastards everywhere and everywhere I try to read between the lines in every news. As for this news, I have not yet figured out where the catch is)) Most likely the hostages were not just any thread.

[DMoroz]

Americans simply feed the Kurds, while the latter fight for themselves, i.e. for their state, and in any situation they are used either against Erdogan, or against Assad, or against ISIS (which they, by the way, already do) ...

[EFA]

In addition, the United States received important intelligence information about the IG.

It is interesting that they there learned something that they did not know before?
Probably learned the real info about the number of deserters, moods, and most importantly - their favorite "moderate" teras are probably planning to unite with the bloody and terrible Assad.

[kil 31]

"US forces provided a helicopter and escorted Iraqi Peshmerga forces to the facility

American "soldier died of injury, despite the medical assistance provided to him, four militias were injured

Helicopter, what-if shot down with a Kurdish landing? The pilot was an Americanos.

[ratfly]

The Kurds are now like an ace of trumps, whoever plays it wins. And Turkey has shown itself as a obstinate uncontrollable horse. Here are the mattresses and began to maneuver between them. Now we have to, the time of hegemony is over.

[Vladimir 1964]

Soldiers of the Kurdish militia Peshmerga took part in the liberation of the hostages in Iraq together with the American servicemen, the Pentagon representative Peter Cook reported to RIA Novosti.

Today, the topic of relations between Americans and Kurds has already been considered. This joint event once again confirms the interest of Americans in the Kurdish issue. For them, this question is interesting both in the light of influence on Erdogan, and as an option of counteracting Russia, and, first of all, as it is thought, as a serious geopolitical knot, by unleashing which, by creating any Kurdish state, the Americans will receive a serious lever of influence over the entire region Central Asia and the Middle East.
One can only hope that our leaders will be able to get ahead of the Americans. On this occasion, I think it is not for nothing that Assad came.

Something like that, Dear colleagues.

[3 Gorynych]

Correct thoughts -support!

[3 Gorynych]

specifying that not 5, but 6 Islamists were detained. According to them, a total of 69 people were released.

Something is not entirely clear - 10 terrorists held almost 70 hostages? Or were they simply grazed there on the lawn ...

[Alexander Romanov]

Quote: 3

10 terrorists held nearly 70 hostages?

10 have guns and 70 don't. So here's an honest deal.

[AdekvatNICK]

Is this apparently something from the divine comedy of Dante Alighieri?

[Mikhail m]

Americans with the Kurds freed the hostages.
An analogy was inspired by climbers and Sherpas. Sherpas pull the ropes, drag the load. And the conquerors of the peaks of these ropes light in oxygen masks climb the mountain with difficulty. Then they proudly hawl, unconsciously forgetting about the Sherpas: we are conquerors.

[V.ic]

Quote: Mikhail M

Sherpas pull the ropes, drag the load

Thousands by 4-5 meters, no more, further oxygen is required.

[roskot]

Striped wander in their politics in the Middle East. Although they believe that they are above the battle. But this does not happen.

[Mountain shooter]

The US is obviously playing "Kurdish kaota". Why did Assad not play it for 4 years? Apparently, he has a very strong "not love" for this people. And the Kurds don't trust him. Was this why Assad was "taken" to Moscow?

[morozik]

without Kurds it would be difficult ...
landing blitzkrieg:

[AdekvatNICK]

sluggish army crippled. Everyone on relax, mess, during fast food breaks breaks ... dark glasses are set and pulled to sleep ... you chew gum, you push the jeep stuck in the sand with one hand ..... what are they spineless. ...

[opus]

Quote: morozik

landing blitzkrieg:

ILC US / USMC ...
What do they learn?

1. Water nearby (as much as you like), take buckets, carry / water along the exit path.
(laziness? got up "body" and all urinated under the wheels)

So for reference (they suddenly don’t know), every LCAC, Landing Craft Air Cushion has a fire extinguishing pump (if you don’t want to write like buckets or like)

Of course, no one forces them to wet all the sand in front of the machine all the way.
2. Relieve pressure in tires (0,6-0,8 atm)

3. Dig out the exit for the wheel (well, it will not roll to it 1/2 diameter in the bulk)

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we have the same "martyrs"

[aviator1913]

The Kurds are a brave people who have been rejoicing for their independence from Iraq, Turkey, Syria and Iran for many years. Despite their overall large numbers, they remain the national minorities in all these countries, so apparently after the defeat of the Islamic State a new state is formed, Kurdistan, which Iran and Turkey really dislike, but it seems to be acceptable for Iraq and Syria.

Unfortunately, almost 100% is waiting for Syria to divide into 3 parts, Kurdish, Alawite-Yezidi and Sunni. And this Assad must also understand ...

[Sauron80]

The only question is to whom the deserted desert will go, and to whom the lands rich in resources;)

[aviator1913]

Well, this can already be solved in the working order, after the war, taking into account the presence of international peacekeepers and observers in referenda. Moreover, the regions of residence of certain groups will affect this arrangement.

[K-50]

"Militia forces managed to detain a number of militants from the ISIS terrorist movement, including an officer in the Israeli army"
The agency adds that “Officer Yoshi Alon Shahak has the rank of Colonel of the Golan Brigade of the Israeli Army and his personal license plate number (Re34356578765az231434).”

Nosy slept!
In the same sources, there was news that some al-Nusra militants were being treated in Israeli hospitals, which sheds light on the connection between the Israeli secret services and some "terrorist" organizations that are fighting in Syria.
That's what the Israelis shouted at the site.

[Sauron80]

Now the colonel will be fired a week ago from the Israeli army))

[Hello]

Quote: K-50

Nosy slept!
In the same sources, there was news that some al-Nusra militants were being treated in Israeli hospitals, which sheds light on the connection between the Israeli secret services and some "terrorist" organizations that are fighting in Syria.
That's what the Israelis shouted at the site.

Show the source I beg Such, with the permission of the "license plates", have never been born

[31rus]

You dear ones are missing one very important component, this is that the Kurds are also divided by parties and countries and there is no mutual understanding among them, here is a vast "field", first of all, to establish a dialogue between Assad-Kurds, such a serious issue should not be overlooked

[kos2910]

strange somehow less than 10 militants held hostage 70 people?

[aviator1913]

According to your logic, we should have more than one prison guard in prison; Prisoners to keep a lot of people do not need ..

[tolmachiev51]

Maybe "rightly", while freeing their own people, they made a deal with the Kurds !!! why "ruin" their own.