Iraqi prime minister calls for promoting stability in Sinjar
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday underlined the need to promote stability in Sinjar to prevent terrorists from having a foothold in the area.
Al-Kadhimi met with a group of Ezidis in the capital Baghdad to discuss the requirements for establishing stability in Sinjar.
The meeting came a week after an Iraqi soldier was killed and two others were injured in clashes with a PKK-affiliated militia in Sinjar.
“It’s important to boost stability and restore economic activity in the area to deny terrorists the opportunity” to have a foothold, the Iraqi premier said.
Sinjar was captured by the ISIS in 2014.
In 2017, Iraq declared victory over the ISIS, saying it had reclaimed all territories the terror group had controlled since the summer of 2014 — estimated to be about one-third of the country’s territory.
In October 2020, the Iraqi federal government and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq signed an agreement to preserve security in Sinjar through the Iraqi federal security forces in coordination with the KRG Peshmerga forces.
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