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Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdraw from
Khaneqin
19.8.2008
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August
19, 2008
DIYALA, Iraq,— A force from the
Peshmerga fighters withdrew from the Qurat Teba
district in Khaneqin district in Diala, while Iraqi
army forces assumed the responsibility there, said a
security source.
“The 34th force battalion of the Peshmerga forces
withdrew from the Qurat Taba district in Khaneqin,www.ekurd.net
northeast of Baaquba,
heading for Kurdistan and the Iraqi army forces
received the security responsibility there,” the
source, who asked to be unnamed, told VOI.
The Peshmerga brigade, comprising 4,000 troops, was
located in Diyala to protect the Kurdish civilians
in the district.
“This came after a recent agreement between Prime
Minister Nouri al-Maliki and a delegation from the
Kurdistan’s government in Baghdad,” he added.
Iraq's security forces had launched a wide-scale
security campaign in Diala province. The operation,
codenamed Bashaer al-Kheir, is aimed at tracking
down members of al-Qaeda network in Diala, Iraq's
most restive city, after the armed group lost its
strongholds in the western Iraq predominantly Sunni
province of al-Anbar, where tribesmen fought its
members and flushed them out of the city.
Diala province extends to the northeast of Baghdad
as far as the Iranian border. Its capital is Baaquba,
57 km northeast of Baghdad. It covers an area of
17,685 square kilometers (6,828 sq mi).
A large portion of the province is drained by the
Diala River, a major tributary of the Tigris.
Because of its proximity to two major sources of
water,www.ekurd.net
Diala's main industry is
agriculture, primarily dates grown in large Date
Palm groves. It is also recognized as the orange
capital of the Middle East.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, VOI
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