SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Another joint operations room between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces opened in Makhmour on Monday, according to a political official.
Head of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) office’s press and relations Ghayas Surchi said there were five officers from the ministry of Peshmerga in the room.
“The establishment of the room will help form joint forces and launch joint operations as well as exchange information and intelligence,” he told Esta Media Network.
“Two more joint operations rooms between the Iraqi military and Peshmerga will be opened in Nineveh Plains and western Mosul,” he noted.
The first joint operations room was opened in Khanaqin district last week while the second one was opened in Kirkuk on Sunday.
Following attacks by Islamic State (ISIS) militants against the Iraqi and Kurdish forces in disputed territories, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi ordered establishing joint operations rooms in those areas to prevent further attacks.
Kurdish officials have warned that ISIS militants are using a “security vacuum” between the Iraqi and Kurdish forces to carry out attacks in the disputed territories.
ISIS militants attacked the Peshmerga forces near Prde town south of Erbil and in Kifri district in Diyala province this month.
Four members of the Peshmerga forces were killed and three others wounded in the attacks, according to Peshmerga officials,
Iraq declared victory over Islamic State in December 2017 but the militants have regrouped in the Hamrin mountain range which extends into the northern provinces – an area described by officials as a “triangle of death”.
