{"id":853,"date":"2017-10-24T02:46:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2017-10-24T02:46:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:46:55","slug":"kurds-accuse-baghdad-of-troop-buildup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/10\/24\/kurds-accuse-baghdad-of-troop-buildup\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurds accuse Baghdad of troop buildup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"row article-top-header\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 article-top-header-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"article-heading\">\n<h1>SOURCE: Aljazeera<\/h1>\n<h1>\u00a0http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/171023172816517.html<\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"megaheadline post-title\">Kurds accuse Baghdad of troop build-up on region border<\/h1>\n<div class=\"article-heading-author-wrap\">\n<div class=\"article-heading-author-img\">\n<div class=\"article-heading-author-name\">\n<div class=\"article-duration\">9 hours ago<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-top-share-icon\" class=\"article-readToMe-share-block\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"row article-main-content-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"col-md-8 article-main-content\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<article id=\"main-article-block\" class=\"main-article-block clear-fix\">\n<div class=\"main-article-body\">\n<div class=\"article-more-on-block article-shaded-blocks article-embedded-card hidden-xs\">\n<h4 class=\"embeded-box-name\">MORE ON\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/kurds.html\">KURDS<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul class=\"article-more-on-ul\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/kurdistan-change-theatrics-171023111730640.html\">In Kurdistan we need change, not theatrics<\/a>today<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/gorran-barzani-resign-kurdish-vote-171023071117432.html\">Gorran says Barzani should resign after Kurdish vote<\/a>today<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/171023172816517.html\">Kurds accuse Baghdad of troop build-up on region border<\/a>today<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/abadi-tells-tillerson-pmf-hope-iraq-region-171023195623368.html\">Abadi tells Tillerson: PMF is hope of Iraq and region<\/a>today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" class=\"article-p-wrapper\">\n<p>The Kurdish leadership in northern\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/iraq.html\">Iraq<\/a>\u00a0has accused the federal government in Baghdad of continuing to mobilise security forces towards the borders of the country&#8217;s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.<\/p>\n<p>The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) said on Monday that it was concerned over the &#8220;dangerous deployment&#8221; of Iraqi troops and allied militia in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last 48 hours, Iraq has continued to deploy tanks and artillery, as well as American equipment, including Humvees and Armoured Personnel Carriers,&#8221; it said in a statement on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iraq has shown zero signs of de-escalating their military aggression against the people of Kurdistan Region,&#8221; said KRSC,\u00a0urging Baghdad to stop the military buildup.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We call on the Iraqi government to immediately cease its military aggression and withdraw from all territories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from Baghdad.<\/p>\n<h2>Kirkuk advance<\/h2>\n<p>The Iraqi army, backed by Shia paramilitaries, on Saturday said it was in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/iraq-forces-full-control-kirkuk-province-171021044707969.html\">full control<\/a>\u00a0of all of oil-rich Kirkuk province following the capture of Altun Kupri town after intense fighting against Kurdish Peshmerga forces.<\/p>\n<p>Baghdad&#8217;s forces had previously captured Kirkuk city, as\u00a0part of a major military operation in the wake of a controversial September 25 referendum on Kurdish secession that Baghdad had declared illegal.<\/p>\n<div>\n<table class=\"in-article-item video Fullwidth\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"mceVideoBox\">\n<div id=\"bcvid_5620969082001\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"meta\"><strong>WATCH:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i5kQTMYr-hs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kurdish troops deploy to Kirkuk area after Iraqi army take-over (02:14)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the Iraqi army advanced, tens of thousands of people, including civilians and Peshmerga fighters, fled the disputed multi-ethnic city, home to about a million Arabs,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/kurds.html\">Kurds<\/a>, Turkmen and Christians.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdish Peshmerga forces seized Kirkuk, Iraq&#8217;s second oil hub, in mid-2014 when Iraqi troops withdrew from the advancing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/isis-isil.html\">ISIL<\/a>\u00a0(also known as ISIS) group.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;Shock and disarray&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Separately, parliamentary and presidential elections set for November 1 were delayed on Monday after political parties reportedly failed to present candidates.<\/p>\n<div>\n<table class=\"in-article-item video\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"mceVideoBox\">\n<div id=\"bcvid_5614689614001\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"meta\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5RAU8mYyp_M&amp;t=1s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INSIDE STORY: What does the future hold for Iraq&#8217;s Kurds after territory seized? (25:01)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yerevan Saeed, a Kurdish affairs analyst and researcher at the Middle East Research Institute, told Al Jazeera that the underlying causes for the delay appeared to be deeper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Kurdish leadership is in a state of shock and disarray after they lost almost 45 percent of the territory that they had controlled since 2014,&#8221; he told Al Jazeera from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is all about the repercussions and unintended consequences of the referendum, and the regional and international pressure on the leadership of the Kurdish Regional Government,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The referendum was supposed to consolidate the legitimacy and also the position of the ruling Kurdish party, but obviously that backfired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body-artSource\">\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0AL JAZEERA NEWS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOURCE: Aljazeera \u00a0http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/171023172816517.html Kurds accuse Baghdad of troop build-up on region border 9 hours ago MORE ON\u00a0KURDS In Kurdistan we need change, not theatricstoday Gorran says Barzani should resign after Kurdish votetoday Kurds accuse Baghdad of troop build-up on region bordertoday Abadi tells Tillerson: PMF is hope of Iraq and regiontoday The Kurdish leadership in northern\u00a0Iraq\u00a0has accused the federal government&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2017\/10\/24\/kurds-accuse-baghdad-of-troop-buildup\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}