Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga forces are **t yet ready to wrest the city of Mosul back from the jihadist fighters who captured it on June 10, a top leader said Wednesday. "A certain number of conditions need to be met before launching any battle, and they are **t met yet," Roz Nuri Shaways told AFP. Shaways is Iraq's newly appointed finance minister but is also a senior commander in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He leads peshmerga forces that retook seven Christian villages from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in the Nineveh plain, about 30 kilometres east of Mosul, on Tuesday.
09-18-2014, 05:30 PM
Kurds **t ready to recapture Mosul: Iraqi minister
Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga forces are **t yet ready to wrest the city of Mosul back from the jihadist fighters who captured it on June 10, a top leader said Wednesday. "A certain number of conditions need to be met before launching any battle, and they are **t met yet," Roz Nuri Shaways told AFP. Shaways is Iraq's newly appointed finance minister but is also a senior commander in the Kurdistan Democratic Party. He leads peshmerga forces that retook seven Christian villages from the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group in the Nineveh plain, about 30 kilometres east of Mosul, on Tuesday.
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