Mosul Victory Not Possible Without Peshmerga: Iraqi Envoy to US



Iraq’s Ambassador to the US, Farid Yassin, has said that the liberation of Mosul from the Islamic State (IS) militants would have not been achieved without the vital role of Kurdish Peshmerga forces.


“The great victory [Mosul liberation] would not have happened without the cooperation of all Iraqi military forces, including the Peshmerga, who paid the ultimate price with thousands of martyrs being wounded and martyred,” Yassin told Kurdistan24 from Washington.


He reiterated that the Peshmerga were “an essential part of the campaign” to defeat the extremist group.


Launched on 17th October last year, the Mosul operation was announced concluded with full victory over IS on July 10th this year.


Prior to the beginning of the assault and based on a previous military agreement between Erbil and Baghdad, the Peshmerga forces liberated all the territories on the western and northern suburb of Mosul.

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