According to officials familiar with the process, a tentative ceasefire deal has been reached between the Yazidis and the Iraqi Army, and would aim to both lower tensions and stop the fighting around Sinjar.
This fighting was related to the Turkish military’s anti-PKK offensive in Iraq, with the Iraqi Army aiming to pacify the smaller Yazidi militias who, since the ISIS conflict, have been aligned with the PKK.
Iraq’s government isn’t wholly comfortable with the autonomous PKK operating on their territory, but also are pointedly not endorsing Turkey’s offensive against it.
Yazidi officials are very suspicious, and worried Turkey is exploiting this situation in a manner unfavorable to them. In particular, the concern is that Turkey is luring Iraq’s government into an anti-Yazidi stand for the sake of being anti-PKK. The leading Iraqi Kurdish Party, the KDP, is seen as inclined this way as well, as they have neither much use for the PKK, nor deep historical ties to the Yazidis.
This was conspicuous in the post-ISIS deal between Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which excluded the Yazidis, and Iraq and the Kurds agreed that the Yazidi militias should be withdrawn from Sinjar. The Yazidis resisted this, because it wasn’t their deal. That led to fights in recent weeks when the Iraqi Army tried to impose this agreement.
This is exactly the kind of complex analysis the establishment news utterly fails to deliver. And will never deliver.
F… off u failed to prevent genocide, so stop trying to disarm the people who r simply trying to protect themselves.
Um, are you aware that it was the KURDISH PKK that disarmed the Yazidis and then left them just hours ahead of ISIS arriving, without telling them ISIS was coming? So that the Yazidis would be massacred, and the women raped and then taken as slaves. The Kurds then went back and took the area for themselves.
So your “F… off” – wow, tough guy! – and talk about “failed to prevent
genocide” and “disarming” the Yazidis is pretty hilarious in its ignorance.
You also don’t know that the Kurdish PKK are Marxist terrorists who smuggle drugs to Europe, and who force Kurdish children to become child soldiers. They have also ethnically cleansed Arab villages in Syria, where they have stolen the northern water supplies and burn Arab-owned wheat fields as an act of terrorism. In Turkey they murder forest workers with bombs and kidnap businessmen to force the families to pay ransom or have the husband returned dead. They extort money from businesses and those who don’t pay are attacked with grenades and car bombs.
The PKK – sorry, “YPK” – in Syria has allowed ISIS to pass through its territory, and incorporates ISIS soldiers. The dumb Americans stationed with the YPK have their belongings stolen from them. They are forced to sit through Marxist indoctrination speeches, like feminists telling them a male sniper is not allowed to cover a female sniper, and a man is not allowed to brush his teeth in front of a woman as it symbolizes preparing for sex.
By the way, speaking of genocide, I’m sure you don’t know the Kurds aided the Turkish government in genociding the Christian Armenians. They killed two million. They took the women as sex slaves, locking them up in basements to rape them over and over. They still laugh about it today and then pretend that they are victims. The Kurds were roving nomads, stealing as they went, who only became stationary when they stole the homes and belongings of the millions of murdered Armenians.
ok now there are “Yazidis” over there. what happened to “Houthis”.
somebody dreams up different names for “bad guys we don’t like” even though they are all the same color and speak the same language and worship the same muslim prophet.
so what was ever the difference between Al Qaeda and ISIS ?
get with the program! it is like the difference between methodist and lutheran.
Iraqi leaders seem to be more interested in peace than Turkey. Hopefully, they can work it out for each of the minorities in that area
The KDP is also close to Iran and has fought the Marxist PKK terrorists and drug smugglers, even just two years or so ago.