Around 15,000 fighters from Sunni tribes are set to join in the military operation to liberate a northern Iraqi city from the Islamic State.
The militiamen are to cooperate with the central Iraqi Army and the international coalition in their bid to regain control of Mosul from the IS terrorist group.
A member of the state-sponsored Shiite-led Popular Mobilization Forces Hameed al-Shatri told EFE that the newly enlisted fighters are members of Sunni-dominated tribal units from Nineveh province, the capital of which is Mosul.
Al-Shatri explained that the fighters had been recruited as volunteers and the chief of joint operations_ the body that groups together all the units due to take part in the Mosul offensive_ is to determine the missions for the paramilitary group.
Finally, he added that the number of fighters was provisional and subject to increase.
The new units were formed by the governor of Nineveh in a region some 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Mosul and recruited voluntary fighters from several Arab villages in the area.
After initial Government funds for the fighting units ran dry, the Iraqi Minister of Agriculture Falah Hassan al-Zaidan_ himself from tribal origins_ financed the groups until the PMF took over ahead of the Mosul operation.
On Oct. 7, Turkish foreign affairs minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said in Ankara that Mosul should not be liberated by Shiite militias because the Sunni majority population of Mosul see them as enemies.
The minister said that from their base in Bashika just 15 km from Mosul, Turkish troops in the region were already forming coalitions of Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen and Yazidi fighters.
Baghdad called upon the United Nations Security Council to act on what it sees as an invasion of its sovereignty.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Army forces and their allied militias are preparing for the liberation operation of Mosul in the coming weeks.
Iraq's second city Mosul has been under IS rule since it fell to the jihadists in 2014.
EFE
11/10/16
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The militiamen are to cooperate with the central Iraqi Army and the international coalition in their bid to regain control of Mosul from the IS terrorist group.
A member of the state-sponsored Shiite-led Popular Mobilization Forces Hameed al-Shatri told EFE that the newly enlisted fighters are members of Sunni-dominated tribal units from Nineveh province, the capital of which is Mosul.
Al-Shatri explained that the fighters had been recruited as volunteers and the chief of joint operations_ the body that groups together all the units due to take part in the Mosul offensive_ is to determine the missions for the paramilitary group.
Finally, he added that the number of fighters was provisional and subject to increase.
The new units were formed by the governor of Nineveh in a region some 80 kilometers (50 miles) southeast of Mosul and recruited voluntary fighters from several Arab villages in the area.
After initial Government funds for the fighting units ran dry, the Iraqi Minister of Agriculture Falah Hassan al-Zaidan_ himself from tribal origins_ financed the groups until the PMF took over ahead of the Mosul operation.
On Oct. 7, Turkish foreign affairs minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said in Ankara that Mosul should not be liberated by Shiite militias because the Sunni majority population of Mosul see them as enemies.
The minister said that from their base in Bashika just 15 km from Mosul, Turkish troops in the region were already forming coalitions of Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen and Yazidi fighters.
Baghdad called upon the United Nations Security Council to act on what it sees as an invasion of its sovereignty.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Army forces and their allied militias are preparing for the liberation operation of Mosul in the coming weeks.
Iraq's second city Mosul has been under IS rule since it fell to the jihadists in 2014.
EFE
11/10/16
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Iraq: Turkish troops presence hampers Mosul liberation
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