SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Chief of Staff of the Iraqi military Abdul Amir Yarallah visited Sinjar on Tuesday to look into the security situation there, Iraq’s state news agency INA reported.
A security source told state news agency NINA that Yarallah held a “closed-door meeting” with the security officials in the district.
In October, the federal government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) reached an agreement to normalize the governance and security situation in Sinjar.
Last week, KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said the agreement had not been implemented and that the armed groups supposed to leave the district were still present in the area.
“As long as I know, the Sinjar agreement hasn’t been implemented … The parties supposed to leave those areas are still present there,” Barzani said in a press conference.
“The normalization of the situation to allow the return of the displaced people living in camps has not been implemented as well,” Barzani added.
Major General Tahseen al-Khafaji, spokesman of the Iraqi joint operations command, said on Sunday that no armed groups were present in the town.
“The district is currently empty of any party or political entity that takes charge of security in the city,” he said, stating that only the federal government’s security forces are stationed in the district.
