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3 more F-16's are up for delivery in the coming days

This joint training was more of a show to send a message of 'unified military stance' against KRG. You can see that when the soldiers are waving flags and that ISOF (SF infantry) are training with what seems to be armored division/mechanized infantry, they are not for the same type of...

I think that Lt. General Al-Majid did a good job against those internal enemies that stood against the state during wartime. If ISF did this in Hawija protests during the 2013 protests we wouldn't have seen the fall of Mosul in 2014.

We must overrun all their territories, joint operations. The minister of relocation (Ali Hassan al-Majid) will bless these operations from straight heaven.

I say airdrop some flyers of Chem Ali over Arbil. What did Ali do? He bombed an area of eople that were inviting and hosting hostile troops (Iranian) to the land during the Iran-Iraq war, by doing so they voluntarily became combatants in a war. What KRG and SDF/YPG have been doing is cleansing...

Where is General Al-Majid when you need him These racists are taking it too far, they need to pay again

They act like this now, the moment some military force attacks them they will cry and call it Saddamist style behavior from Iraqis or genocidal Turks. Maybe I am biased but these Kurds seem to be extremely racist towards non-Kurds trying to 'make up' for their lack of statehood in the region.

Kurds are most distant to Islam out of all middle easterners (minus Jews). Besides this argument is the usual I come across. When the Kurd subject is mentioned some random Muslim will say, 'Saladin was Kurd as well' as if that makes a difference, looks like another script people are taught to...

It is still strange though, Erdogan was Barzani's biggest backer and lifeline against Iraq. I don't know what Barzani is planning, he cannot survive this without a neighbor that backs him. This is just suicide for Kurdistan, it only benefits us.

That's ISOF

Some Turkmen units of PMU opened fire on Peshmerga, resulting in a casualty and wounded 2 others earlier in Toz Khormatu according to sources, Kurds did not escalate back as it would benefit Baghdad to intervene I believe, There are big words and orders to deploy troops here and there but I...

It's pressuring Abadi to do so but in the end he has to give that order, and he doesn't seem like the person to give such an order out of nowhere. What is more likely is that PMU will start clashing with Peshmerga, then he will give some order.

It's for show but it reveals their intention, and this situation would be far more dangerous if they had a strong backer like the US, whilst unlikely it could happen in the future, therefor this opportunity has to be taken to crush the KRG.

Yes they should act, the KRG is not powerful and inexperienced, all they've done the past few years is dig trenches and wave their flags. Now is a good opportunity as they have no backing, except from irrelevant Israel.

Iraqi PM Abadi orders security forces to protect civilians threatened to vote for #KRG referendum after minorities complained

Turkish prime minister said it, was agreed upon during chiefs of staff meeting in Ankara

Yildirim also said on Monday that officers and experts from Iraq’s army would join military exercises that Turkey launched along the border in an apparent warning to the Iraqi Kurds. -- This aside, Turkey also stated they will deal with Baghdad regarding border crossings, airports etc. After...

Based on the Iraqi constitution (adopted in 2005 I believe) the political system is based on an ethno-sect sharing balance. Which states that the Iraqi president MUST be a Kurd, that the prime minister must be Shia Arab and that the parliament speaker must be Sunni. Thus these positions have...

No but been there and know about it (I'd say at least). Whether this escalates to military conflict is in the hands of Kurds, whom are lately escalating things which allows Baghdad to do more as we can see. Therefor, the more they escalate the better for all of us, if Barzani starts burning...

More likely that there will be nothing anytime soon, referendum after all is not binding to separate KRG from Iraq, has little impact. I think after Hawija operation it is more decisive what willh appen