Kurdish police torture Iraqi soldiers traveling to Mosul battle

[Bleipriester]

Several Iraqi soldiers were captured and tortured with electric shocks. Asayish members were also responsible for tensions in Syria´s Qamishli.

"The PMU stated that 8 soldiers and officers had their weapons stolen by the Kurdish police at a checkpoint; they would later be tortured by electric batons.

According to the PMU, the Peshmerga (Kurdish army), Asayish, and Iraqi Army are working to find these rogue officers that were responsible for this crime."

Kurdish police torture Iraqi soldiers traveling to Mosul battle: report

 

[Bleipriester]

Asayish causes more trouble in Syria.

"Hasakah City, Syria (1:00 P.M.) Kurdish police (Asayish) reportedly opened fire on a Ba’ath Battalions post near the Central Market of Hasakah City on Monday, killing one fighter and wounding two others.

Previously, the Kurdish Police and National Defense Forces (NDF) were involved in a violent confrontation in the predominately Arab “Al-Salihiyah District”; it was later put to rest after the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and People’s Protection Units (YPG) intervened to end the hostilities."

Kurdish police attack Syrian gov't forces in Hasakah City

 

[waltky]

Kurds advance on Mosul...

Iraqi Kurdish Troops Take More Ground East of ISIS-Held Mosul
Aug 16, 2016 — A small unit of Kurdish peshmerga forces huddled in an abandoned home on the edge of Qarqashah, one of a dozen villages east of the Iraqi city of Mosul that the peshmerga captured from the Islamic State group this week. The advance aims to lay the groundwork for the battle for Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, which has been held by IS militants for more than two years.

Like almost all of the villages retaken this week, Qarqashah is small and was almost entirely empty of civilians. This allowed the U.S.-led coalition to clear territory using air strikes, rather than relying on ground troops to engage in street-to-street battles. But peshmerga military leaders said their forces still took significant casualties. In Qarqashah village alone, peshmerga commanders estimated they lost 10 men. Even after the operation was declared complete on Monday, fighting was ongoing. Maj. Gen. Hama Rasheed sat on a plastic chair inside the simple home his men were using as a base. Outside, his fighters exchanged fire with IS militants holed up in a neighboring village.

Fields of dead grass burned from IS-launched mortar rounds. Kurdish and coalition forces stationed atop a nearby hill responded with volleys of artillery fire onto the IS fighters below. "The main aim of the operation was to open a strategic road to the Christian areas of the Nineveh plain," said Brig. Gen. Dedewan Khurshid Tofiq, one of the peshmerga commanders overseeing the operation. The Nineveh plain stretches north and east of Mosul. Tofiq added that a bridge, taken on Monday and leading to southeastern Mosul, could facilitate a troop buildup along an eastern Mosul front once it is repaired. The operation, which lasted just under 48 hours, is expected to be one of many operations aimed at encircling Mosul, the last major IS urban stronghold in Iraq.

Civilians flee villages outside Mosul the day after Iraqi Kurdish forces launch an operation east of the Islamic State-held city in Iraq​

The long battle for Mosul is continuing amid violence in much of the rest of the country. At least 15 people have been killed since Monday in a series of separate attacks across Iraq. The deadliest attack occurred on Monday near the town of Rutba in the western province of Anbar, where militants fired mortar rounds on army troops, killing an officer, seven soldiers and a civilian, the Joint Military Operation Command said in a statement. Two attacks struck the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Tuesday. In the capital's southern Dora neighborhood, drive-by shooters killed a Justice Ministry employee, police said. In the southwestern neighborhood of Amil, a bomb ripped through a commercial area, killing three civilians and wounding seven others, according to police.

Another bomb struck a patrol of anti-IS Sunni tribal fighters in Madain, about 14 miles (20 kilometers) southeast of Baghdad, killing two fighters and wounding five others, police said. Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release the information. The Islamic State group captured large areas of northern and western Iraq in a 2014 shock offensive. It is estimated that IS-held territory in the country has now shrunk by two thirds, following an Iraqi campaign backed by the U.S.-led coalition. The fighting has displaced millions of civilians. Along berms marking the peshmerga's new front line with IS, convoys of hundreds of civilians fleeing villages outside Mosul drove through the fine desert sand in the intense summer heat.

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[Bleipriester]

Asayish just fired with a RPG launcher at a SAA checkpoint in Hasakah which is under joint control of the SAA and the YPG. They then randomly fired mortar shells, killing civilians. The tensions are over again.

 

[Bleipriester]

The tensions arose again and the NDF captured a school from Asayish and the government imposed a curfew on the neighborhood until the clashes are over.

Clashes intensify in Al-Hasakah as the government forces capture Al-Amal School

 

[Bleipriester]

The all-in offensive of the Kurds has led to the capture of important government positions. The happenings will fuel the Syrian-Turkish relationship.

Kurdish force on the verge of capturing Al-Hasakah
Ankara sent deputy intel chief to Damascus, reports

 

[Bleipriester]

This is what the Kurds and their western masters bluntly conjured up. Now, it is themselves (respectively: The SDF) who have to deal with it.
ISIS launches massive offensive in southern Al-Hasakah