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By Jacqueline Klimas – The Washington Times – Friday, June 19, 2015
US personnel at al Taqaddum air base in Iraq are beginning to train Sunni Leaders in basic Soldiering to help defeat the Islamic State, a defense official said Friday.
Marine Brig. Gen. Weidley Thomas , chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve, said Sunni Leaders Those can then return to Hwy tribes to pass along the skills they learned in a “train the trainers” -type system.
“We provide the expertise to the tribal trainers and then the tribal trainers will go ahead and conduct training with their individual forces,” he told reporters via video from southwest Asia. “Those subject matter expert exchanges have already commenced at Taqaddum.”
The administration announced earlier this month that 450 additional US personnel were heading to al Taqaddum air base to facilitation relations between the Shiite Iraqi central government and Sunni fighters. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told lawmakers this week that they could expect to see progress in recruiting more Sunni fighters within “weeks.”
Gen. Weidley That said both the recruiting and Vetting of Sunni tribal fighters is done by the Iraqi Government, not by US or Coalition forces.
Five hundred Sunnis were inducted into the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Force in a ceremony at the base Wednesday, he said – a sign that the US presence is helping to bridge the sectarian divide.
When Specifically Asked about previous comments he made That the Islamic State was on the defense just days before Ramadi fell into Terrorist control, Gen. Weidley pointed to recent Successes by State anti-Islamic forces in Syria and Iraq . He also said civilians are finally returning to Tikrit this week, which was uninhabitable for months after being reclaimed by Iraqi forces due to improvised explosive devices throughout the city.
“When I look at the battlespace and all those individual efforts, we see great things happening out there,” he said.
Gen. Weidley Also Provided updates on other key battles in Ramadi and Baiji where Iraqi forces are still struggling to drive out of the Terrorists Cities.
In Baiji, he said Iraqi forces are “making steady progress” clearing the city. He also said Iraqi forces have opened a key supply route to the oil refinery north of the city to resupply forces there.
In Ramadi, Iraqis are working to improve organization and command and control assets to help prepare for future operations. Shaping operations on the ground are ongoing, including security communications channels and roadways, collecting intelligence and rehearsing assaults.
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55 ISIL terrorists killed in Mosul
Nineveh (AIN) –Peshmerga forces foiled an ISIL attack on Sinjar district, killing 25 ISIL terrorists, a security Kurdish source said.
“Peshmerga repelled the attack on Quraj sub-district and Al-Mymonah village within Makhmour district, southwestern of Mosul, killing 30 ISIL terrorists and destroying dozens of vehicles,” the source added to AIN. /End/
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BAGHDAD / Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) – Prime Minister for Economic Affairs adviser said the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, said that the financial credit rating conducted by a government delegation in Turkey this week will announce next month its nature.
He said Saleh’s (IMN), that “the negotiations held between the Iraqi delegation and between Fitch and Rhodes delegation of international credit rating in Turkey this week will announce its findings in July next”, noting that “countries will be her decision in rated credit financially granting Iraq “.
Saleh and predicted that “Iraq gets a good financial credit rating given the economic possibilities enjoyed by the country,” adding that “halving the financial credit is a country’s ability to pay its debts without lag or slowdown.”
He added that “the government delegation assured the bargaining for the safety of the Iraqi economy.”
Held Tuesday consultations session between the Iraqi delegation headed by the Minister of Finance Hochearzibara and between Fitch and Rhodes international credit rating within a bid for the Iraqi government to get more financial support and access to international capital markets and the issuance of sovereign bonds Iraqi government spokesman.
From: Haider al-Tamimi, editor: Ali Al-Shammari
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![]() Khandan – The Iraqi ambassador in Amman, Jawad Abbas, Jordan and Iraq have agreed to change the oil pipeline project, which was scheduled to pass from Anbar province towards the Jordanian territories path. Abbas said in a statement to the agency “Anatolia”, that the proposed route of the pipeline passes through the city of Najaf, Basra, and then pass along the Saudi-Jordanian border to Jordan up, and after that could not be performed pipeline project within its trajectory former security difficulties. Countries were forced to change the course of the pipe as a result of the security situation, especially after the control of the organization “Daash” terrorist large parts of Anbar, which was supposed to pass through the project. On the other hand, the ambassador pointed out that the international companies that had been made to implement the project within the previous track, apologized for the continuing because of security concerns. A few days ago confirmed the Jordanian Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour that two Iraqi companies to tender Tkdmta pipeline Jordanian Iraqi oil, and they are in the process of study presentations, for transmission on the best in the coming period to start implementing the project. |
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![]() Khandan – said Kurdish lawmaker in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, that a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government will travel next week to Baghdad on a recent visit, to discuss the issue of the region’s budget and the agreement concluded between the two sides to reach a solution to it. He said Ardalan Nur al-Din, a Kurdish lawmaker in the House of Representatives Iraqi newspaper «Middle East» has not “solved yet problems between Erbil and Baghdad, did not apply the general budget and the agreement concluded between the two sides Act, so will travel next week a delegation from the Government of the Territory for the last time to Baghdad, to discuss these problems with the federal government, and we hope to be there real results of these talks, “noting that the delegation of Government of the Territory consists of the Minister of Natural Resources drastically and Finance Minister Rebaz Mohammed, pointing out that he has not been confirmed whether will be chaired by the President of the Government of the Territory Nechirvan Barzani delegation or not.In turn, Dilshad Shaaban, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Energy and wealth natural in the Kurdistan Parliament to press, “The people of Kurdistan region of Iraq and international public opinion and the United States and the United Nations they arrived to believe that Baghdad is that you do not want to solve problems with the region, which want to continue this crisis in Kurdistan, for political reasons, Vakulaim Kurdistan delivers oil according to the agreement and the law now to Company (SOMO), but they do not meet their obligations and sent to the territory of its budget, which was agreed upon by the general budget for Iraq for 2015 Act, and previously was Baghdad used the Territory’s budget-card political pressure. ” He stressed Shaaban said: “But we can now oil that we have to provide the Territory’s budget by selling independently, and the declaration of economic independence for the region, nor imagine that the United Nations and the United States will stand against this step, because we can not afford more than that, and we are not obliged to pay successive Iraqi governments errors tax Iraq brought it to a level that it is today, “stressing the completion of each special economic measures for independence for the region was left only for the decision. |
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San Boutros-Iraq Press -19 June: withdrew Vice President Osama Najafi and his accompanying delegation, on Friday, a session of the World Economic Forum held in the Russian city of St. Petersburg.
According to a statement of the Office of the Vice President of the Republic, that “Najafi withdrew abruptly from the Economic Forum was due to the presence of the President of Israel, former Shimon Peres of the session,” noting that “members of the Iraqi delegation and they both Salman Jumaili, Minister of Planning and Mlas Mohammed Abdel-Karim, Minister of Trade pulled out also in the session “.
It is noteworthy that the World Economic Forum being held in the Russian city of St. Petersburg for two days in the presence of international and Asa.anthy (1)
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The price of the OPEC basket of crudes {} rises to 55.60 dollars a barrel
{International: Euphrates News} The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries {OPEC} today that the price of its basket of crudes rose 12 Thursday by 28 cents to settle at 55.60 dollars a barrel compared to 27.60 dollars on Wednesday.
The news agency reported {OPEC} that “the bulletin annual rate for the basket price last year was 29.96 dollars a barrel.”
And includes a basket {OPEC} which is a reference in the level of production 12 species a crude policy {Sahara} Algerian heavy Iranian and {Albesarh} Iraqi crude export Kuwaiti crude {Sidr} Libyan crude {Bonnie} Nigerian crude maritime Qatari Saudi Arabian light crude ore {bitters } and Venezuelan crude and {} Angolan Girassol and Ecuadorian} {Orient.
The oil ministers of OPEC {} decided at the conclusion of the annual ministerial meeting in the fifth of this month of June to maintain the current production ceiling of the member states of the organization selected thirty million barrels of oil Aumia.anthy
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