Only 800 meters left to announce victory on ISIS in Mosul – Army
Federal Police Commander Raed Shakir Jawdat said on Monday only 800 meters are left to announce victory against ISIS terrorist group after the army regains all of the Mosul city.
In a press release, the commander added that the forces had entered Farouk street in the Old City district in the right bank of Mosul.
Earlier, Spokesman of the Joint Operations Command Brigadier General Yahya Rasool said that more than 99 percent of Mosul’s right bank has been recaptured from ISIS terrorist group.
This comes as the offensive launched on 19th of February by US-backed Iraqi forces, supported by Iranian-backed sectarian IMIS Shiite militias, to oust ISIS terrorists from Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq.
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Prime Minister Dr. Haider Abadi: Time is very close to declaring victory
Prime Minister Dr. Haider Abadi: Time is very close to declaring victory
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Prime Minister Dr. Haider al-Abadi said that the time is very near to announce the final victory over the gangs of the terrorist. “Our heroic forces are fighting and achieving new victories even during the Eid,” he said.
This came during a speech during a tour of a number of charitable and humanitarian institutions concerned with family and social care in the city of Kadhimiya.
“We are trying to liberate people before the earth,” he said.
Dr. Abbadi added that without the blood of martyrs and wounded, these victories would not have been achieved.
During his tour, he distributed gifts to orphaned children, congratulating Eid al-Fitr. He also briefed on ongoing works and future urban projects for humanitarian institutions, praising their role in the service of society and the efforts of supervisors and supervisors.
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Prime Minister ‘s Media Office
26 June 2017
Different Translation
Prime Minister Dr. Haider Al-Abadi: very close time to declare victory
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Confirmed The Prime Minister Dr. Haider Al-Abadi to time very soon to announce the final victory over ISIS terrorist gangs, sovereignty, and said: ” our troops are fighting champion and the victories achieved during the days until Christmas.
Through the words that come to him during his tour in a number of charities and humanity on family welfare and social kazimiyah city.
He confirmed his lordship to ISIS trying to inflict so much damage and committing the most heinous crimes against civilians trapped in another spot where the connector, pointing out that the world is experiencing the dealing of our outstanding humanitarian, stressing that we strive to make men free before the earth.
Dr. Al-Abadi, had it not been for the blood of martyrs and wounded why these impressive victories.
His Lordship was distributed during his tour presents the orphaned children, happy eid al fitr professionally, also briefed on the ongoing work and future redevelopment projects for humanitarian institutions, praising its role in community service efforts and operators and supervisors on it.
Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/showthread.php?51003-Prime-Minister-Dr-Haider-Abadi-Time-is-very-close-to-declaring-victory
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Mosul battle to end in days as troops advance in Old City: Iraqi general
The battle to take full control of Mosul from ISIS will be over in a few days and an attempted fight-back by the militants failed, an Iraqi general told Reuters on Monday.
“Only a small part remains in the city, specifically the Old City,” said Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi, commander of the Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) elite units in Mosul.
“From a military perspective, Daesh is finished,” Assadi said. “It lost its fighting spirit and its balance, we are making calls to them to surrender or die.”
The area now under ISIS control in Mosul, once the militant group’s de facto capital in Iraq, is less than 2 sq kms, the Iraqi military said.
An attempt by ISIS militants late on Sunday to return to neighborhoods outside the Old City failed, Assadi said, adding the city would fall “in very few days, God willing”.
The CTS is leading the fight in the densely populated maze of narrow alleyways of the historic Old City which lies by the western bank of the Tigris river.
A U.S.-led international coalition is providing air and ground support in the eight-month-old offensive.
The militants last week destroyed the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its leaning minaret from which their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate spanning parts of Iraq and Syria three years ago. The mosque’s grounds remain under the militants’ control.
Iraqi troops captured the neighborhood of al-Faruq in the northwestern side of the Old City facing the mosque, the military said on Monday.
PUSHING EAST
Iraqi forces took the eastern side of Mosul from ISIS in January, after 100 days of fighting, and started attacking the western side in February.
Up to 350 militants are estimated by the Iraqi military to be besieged in the Old City, dug in among civilians in crumbling houses and making extensive use of booby traps, suicide bombers and sniper fire to slow down the troops’ advance.
Assadi said Iraqi forces had linked up along al-Faruq, a main street bisecting the Old City, and would start pushing east, toward the river. “It will be the final episode,” he said.
More than 50,000 civilians, about half the Old City’s population, remain trapped behind ISIS lines with little food, water or medicines, according to those who escaped.
Aid organizations say ISIS has stopped many from leaving, using them as human shields. Hundreds of civilians fleeing the Old City have been killed in the past three weeks.
ISIS has carried out sporadic suicide bombings in parts of Mosul using sleeper cells. It launched a wave of such attacks late on Sunday, trying to take control of a district west of the Old City, Hay al-Tanak, and the nearby Yarmuk neighborhood.
Social media carried posts showing black smoke and reports that it came from houses and cars set alight by the militants. Witnesses said residents had fled the two neighborhoods.
Assadi said the attempt to take over the neighborhoods had failed and the militants were now besieged in one or two pockets of Hay al-Tanak. A curfew was in force over western Mosul, a Reuters correspondent reported.
The fall of Mosul would mark the end of the Iraqi half of the “caliphate”, but ISIS remains in control of large areas of both Iraq and Syria.
Baghdadi has left the fighting in Mosul to local commanders and has been assumed to be hiding in the Iraqi-Syrian border area. There has been no confirmation of Russian reports over the past days that he has been killed.
In Syria, the insurgents’ “capital” Raqqa, is nearly encircled by a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition.
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Kaperoni (Dinar Guru) – “CBI website has a new look!” This is a good sign. I know it’s easy to just assume they are remodeling there website..but I think its much more. With all the speculation that the banking system must open up to perpetuate international activities to support global investment, this new website to me is much more polished, professional and institutional. We could be getting closer.
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Chattels (Dinar Guru) – “CBI website has a new look!” “H.E Mr. Ali Muhsin Ismail / Acting Governor and Head of the Executive Board” I believe that the reference to Ismail as the “acting governor” is a change.
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Britain: Iraq is restoring its regional, international status
Iraq is restoring its regional and international status after so many sacrifices the country has given, British ambassador to Iraq Frank Baker said Wednesday during a meeting with Iraqi Parliament speaker Salim al-Jabouri.
Al-Jabouri said the international community must increase support to Iraq, especially in medical aid as displacement crisis is exacerbating.
The two sides discussed the latest developments in Iraq and the Middle East region as well as the means to cooperate in fighting terrorism.
The British ambassador praised the two countries’ special relations, noting that Britain will continue to support Iraq in its war against terrorism.
This comes as the offensive launched on 19th of February by the US-backed Iraqi forces, supported by the Iranian-backed sectarian IMIS Shiite militias, to oust ISIS terrorists from Mosul, their last major stronghold in Iraq is nearing its end.
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MilitiaMan (Dinar Guru) – The UNSC Doc published just under three weeks ago this Friday told us all, that there was going to be an action within June 2016 [2017 ?]. That action has a time line by and or before the end of the month. That action is a reaction to things accomplished or that action wouldn’t have even been mentioned. The UNSC escrow account is being funded or well closed out if you will. End game, symbolically. That has meaning that is profound! The Oil for Food program is to be done and gone for ever… I may be wrong, but, that imo is Chapter 7 done in regards to MR and acceptance of Article 8 is in effect or will be, once in synchronization. [post 1 of 3….stay tuned]
Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer/
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Enorrste (Dinar Guru) – [The debate continues….] Each of us is looking at a different set of numbers. In any case, I would personally take Keywords at his word, regardless of the numbers. Saleh’s statement is sort of like Trump’s “I hope” statement. “Like a hard curency” is not the same as “world reserve currency” in my view. I believe that, unless Planet X wipes us out in the next year or so, the dinar will become a world recognized currency. When is another question entirely. I started this over 10 years ago and am still waiting for it to just start, let alone finish. [reference Guru mike’s post 6-20-2017….will the debate continue?]
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Iraq PM Haider Abadi says Mosul liberation within few days
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi said on Thursday the Iraqi armed forces would fully liberate Mosul from ISIS terrorists within a few days, The Baghdad Post reported.
Iraqi army, backed by the US-led international coalition, launched on Feb.19th an offensive to recapture Mosul’s right bank from ISIS grip.
Iran-allied IMIS militias are supporting the Iraqi army.
Mosul fell to ISIS in 2014.
Iraqi former PM Nouri al-Maliki faces accusations of colluding with the terror group.
Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/showthread.php?50790-Iraq-PM-Haider-Abadi-says-Mosul-liberation-within-few-days
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High security measures and cutting roads leading to Tahrir Square in central Baghdad
A security source said on Friday that the security forces began to close some roads leading to Tahrir Square in conjunction with the influx of demonstrators to the scene in central Baghdad.
The source told “Al-Ghad Press” that “the security forces began cutting off some roads leading to Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, to protect demonstrators and prevent the occurrence of security breaches.”
He added that “security forces deployed in the streets near the square, and cut the road on vehicles, to protect the demonstrations that may be launched tonight,” stressing that “the forces tightened its security measures for fear of the demonstrators.”
The Tahrir Square in the capital Baghdad, large demonstrations on most Fridays, in order to demand the reform and the expulsion of spoilers from the government, and the latest change the Electoral Commission.
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Basra airport management announces the launch of a new air line with Antalya International Airport
The airport has witnessed the opening of an air route between the province and the Turkish city of Antalya. The airport is in a state of continuous expansion and it receives tens of thousands of passengers every month, the airport administration said.
Airport Director Samir Younis said that the air route was inaugurated today between Basra International Airport and Antalya International Airport, with one journey to transport the passengers weekly, pointing out that the new route represents the second destination to Turkey, where there is a passenger line between Basra and Istanbul.
Yunus pointed out that the plane that carried out the first flight to Antalya International Airport is a type of (Boeing 737) owned by Iraqi Airways and leased to a private company, adding that Basra International Airport is witnessing a significant expansion in its work, where he received more than 150 thousand passengers during the previous two months , And is expected to receive the same number in the next few weeks due to increased travel coincides with the summer vacation.
The airport manager said that Qatar Airways will increase the number of flights through Basra International Airport starting from the beginning of next month from ten flights a week to 14 flights, adding that the Egyptian airline is expected to travel in the near future between Basra International Airport and Cairo International Airport .
The Basra International Airport, established in the 1980s by a German company is the second largest airport in Iraq, with a maximum design capacity of 2.5 million passengers annually, and now includes offices belonging to airlines, including Iraqi Airways, Royal Jordanian Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Flydubai, UAE Airways and Qatar Airways, as well as domestic flights, as well as direct flights to Cairo, Beirut, Amman, Damascus, Dubai, Mashhad, Baku and Istanbul.
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The cabinet approves the draft supplementary budget law for 2017 and votes on decisions that are mostly economic
The Council of Ministers held its regular session on Thursday under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Haider Abadi.
Baker Bayan issued by the Iraqi government that the Council of Ministers approved the draft bill for the federal supplementary budget for the fiscal year 2017 and referred to the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives voted on (7 December 2016) on the budget of 2017 all of its articles.
During the meeting, the vote on the national housing project in Maysan province, where the National Investment Authority grant and issue an investment license based on the memorandum of understanding between the province of Maysan and a number of companies.
The statement added that the board of directors’ system was voted in the educational hospital, as well as in the health departments in the provinces.
The statement added that the Council of Ministers voted on the system of selling and renting real estate and state land, and the public sector for investment purposes and control.
The draft law on graft was voted on.
The statement said that the Council voted on the framework document for the general national plan for reconstruction, as was approved the draft bill for the federal supplementary budget for fiscal year 2017 and referred to the House of Representatives.
Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/showthread.php?50793-The-cabinet-approves-the-draft-supplementary-budget-law-for-2017-and-votes-on-decisio
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BGG (Dinar Guru) – “Our economy is space. Monetary policy is an example” The…article is a VERY HARD translation – BUT IMHO FILLED with DEAD GIVE-AWAYS! …for those pouting about not being rich yet – this is one more log on the FIRE! What it means is – they are doing things (up until now) this economist doesn’t understand and can’t explain. Quotes: “…we urgently need a new economic philosophy that leads to generating development And to expand the supply and demand for local production in all its variants, especially in an important aspect of monetary policy is dealing with the value of the development of the dinar or the liberation of the value of the dinar...” “The liberalization or floating of the currency is not strange or innovative in the money market, it is a tool of the monetary policy…” BOOOOM…That’s all I have to say. That is a DIRECT narrative on the state of the currency value in Iraq. This was published yesterday. Cannot be anymore direct.
Read more: http://www.dinarupdates.com/observer
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Iraq’s oil exports in June near May level, oil minister says
Iraq’s oil exports from fields owned by the central government in Baghdad are at around 3.27 million barrels per day (bpd) so far in June, about the same level as in May, Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi said on Thursday.
Total exports for all fields in Iraq, those of Baghdad and the Kurdish region in the north, have averaged 3.8 million bpd so far in June, he told Reuters in the southern oil city of Basra. The country as a whole is producing about 4.315 million bpd, he said.
Kurdish exports are running at about 520,000 to 530,000 bpd so far this month, he said.
Iraq is in “quiet negotiations” with foreign oil companies operating in Iraq to amend their services contract, he said, declining to give more details.
The country wants to change the terms of the contracts it deems no longer in its favor after oil prices collapsed three years ago, when they were in excess of $100 per barrel, to about $45 per barrel now.
Oil prices should start recovering by the end of July, to reach $54 to $56 a barrel by the end of the year, Luaibi said.
Iraq is the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ second oil producer, after Saudi Arabia. The group in May rolled over an agreement to cut oil production with other exporting nations, until March, in order to support oil prices.
“Iraq supports the agreement that we reached; if developments happen contrary to OPEC’s interests, the (OPEC) ministers will hold an extraordinary meeting,” he said.
Iraq will continue developing its production capacity and will start executing a sea water injection project in its oilfields at the end of the year, even without an agreement with Exxon (XOM.N), he said.
“We are now in talks with Exxon Mobil, if we don’t reach an agreement, we have other options,” he said.
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Iraqi Dinar/Dollar auction 06-21-17 (most recent listing)
Currency Auctions Announcement No. 3470
This daily currency auction was held in the Central Bank of Iraq on the 06-21-2017
| DETAILS | NOTES |
| Number of banks | 39 |
| Number of remittance companies | 10 |
| Amount sold at auction price (US$) | 159,617,756 |
| Amount purchased at Auction price (US$) | —– |
| Total offers for buying (US$) | 159,617,756 |
| Total offers for selling (US$) | —– |
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| CURRENCY | CODE | SELL | BUY |
| US dollar | USD | 1184.000 | 1182.000 |
| Euro | EUR | 1325.962 | 1325.299 |
| British pound | GBP | 1515.757 | 1514.999 |
| Canadian dollar | CAD | 895.884 | 895.436 |
| Swiss franc | CHF | 1219.613 | 1219.003 |
| Swedish krona | SEK | 135.962 | 135.894 |
| Norwegian krone | NOK | 140.286 | 140.216 |
| Danish krone | DKK | 178.289 | 178.200 |
| Japanese yen | JPY | 10.663 | 10.657 |
| Special Drawing Rights |
SDR | 1636.868 | 1636.050 |