Telkaif (Agenzia Fides) - The Kurdish Peshmerga militia is preparing to withdraw from the areas of Nineveh Plain still under their control, according to an agreement that in the next few hours will see Iraqi troops in the same areas. The news, relaunched by various Iraqi and Kurdish political sources, seems to wipe out the fears of seeing the Christian villages of Nineveh Plain become a land of military confrontation between Iraq and the independent Kurdish leadership of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, which is still pursuing its plan of Iraqi Kurdistan secession from Baghdad, based on the plebiscite results of the pro-independence referendum promoted last September 25.
The agreement on the withdrawal of the Peshmerga militia and the deployment of the Iraqi army in the Nineveh Plain - including the areas around the inhabited centers of Telkaif and Qaraqosh - is part of the overall agreement reached on Sunday 29 October by the military and political representatives of Baghdad in the meeting with Peshmerga military leaders and political representatives of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. This agreement also involves the deployment of Iraqi military forces of the border passage of Habur, which borders with Turkey, a strategic spot also to control the export of oil produced in the area of Kirkuk.

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31.10.2017