Clare
Article: "American companies arrive in Kurdistan.. The region signs an agreement to enhance trade and investment"
Quote: "The Kurdistan Region Investment Board announced...the signing of an agreement between local and American companies to enhance coordination in the fields of trade and investment,
during a visit by a delegation of 30 American companies to the region."
Iraqi airstrike eliminates key ISIS leaders in Kirkuk
Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate announced, on Saturday, the elimination of five senior ISIS leaders in a precision airstrike in Kirkuk's Zagaitoun Valley. The operation, executed using F-16 aircraft, targeted a strategic ISIS hideout based on intelligence inputs.
“The strike claimed the lives of high-ranking members, including Abu Jawar, administrative assistant for ISIS’s so-called Kirkuk Province; Abu Musab, commander of the Rashad detachment; and Abu Hudhaifa, the province's media officer. Two additional fighters were also killed,” as per a statement by the directorate.
“The hideout was completely destroyed, and light and medium weapons, ammunition, logistical supplies, and two explosive belts were found and eliminated.”
According to the statement, “Following the strike, a combined force from the 1st Battalion of the 63rd Special Forces Brigade and the 11th Division's Reconnaissance Battalion searched the site early Saturday, confirming the deaths of all five militants.”
Although ISIS lost its territorial foothold in Iraq in 2017, the group remains active, particularly in Kirkuk, where it employs guerrilla tactics such as bombings and abductions. Iraqi security forces, with support from the Global Coalition, have ramped up efforts to neutralize the group’s remnants.
Militia Man
They want this [census] to be as accurate as possible, which is good. There's going to be consequences if you don't play by the rules, just like the black market.
If you don't play by the rules...
you're going to find yourself where the dinar becomes stronger than the dollar, the people still holding dollars in the country are not going to be happy.
Oh, well, that's on them...
The expectation is they're going to get money. They're going to get what they deserve...off their natural resources...
Iraq’s Lingering ISIS Challenge
Iraq’s Lingering ISIS mission and the position of dialogue in go back and Reintegration
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
heaps of people with perceived ISIS affiliation are being held in Syria’s al-Hol camp, risking marginalization.
Their effective return and reintegration can help foreclose ISIS’s resurgence.
dialogue strategies have verified essential to addressing groups’ and returning families’ concerns.
Nader From The Mid East
We will not go more than $4 so don't waste your time and ask question about $16, $8, $11 and $12. Don't even do that now.
Come out at $3, yes. If they reinstate it will come out at 3 to 1... $2.83, $2.87 to 1 or more maybe.
But it will not be more than $4. I think $4 is too much too because no money in the world cost that much...Give me $2.50 I'd be happy.
Iraq establishes 'investment portfolio' to support stability of national currency 12/26/2024 The economic advisor to the Prime Mi...