{"id":54386,"date":"2014-08-06T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54386"},"modified":"2014-08-06T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T13:02:57","slug":"iraqi-air-assets-help-kurds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54386","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi air assets help Kurds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/fears-mount-civilians-fled-north-iraq-jihadist-attack-112306762.html\">Agency Presse France<\/a> reports that the Iraqi Air Force flew operations in support of peshmerga troops when the Islamic State forced the Kurds out of Sinjar and peshmurga leaders announced a counteroffensive.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday ordered the air force to provide them support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The commander in chief of the armed forces has issued orders to the leadership of the air force and the army&#8217;s aviation units to provide air support to peshmerga forces,&#8221; army spokesman Qassem Atta said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The peshmerga&#8217;s fellow Kurds in Syria have meanwhile sent their own fighters across the border to help, in an unprecedented move.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Democratic Union Party (PYD) is fighting in the Sinjar area and Rabia,&#8221; a senior army official told AFP, stressing that &#8220;it was not coordinated with the Iraqi government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Syria-based group posted pictures of what it said were its forces operating inside Iraq and said that PYD fighters had been battling IS militants north of Sinjar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, this Islamic State thing might have the effect of doing what the US and Malaki have failed at doing &#8211; uniting Iraq. Of course, that was probably Obama&#8217;s plan all along&#8230;right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Agency Presse France reports that the Iraqi Air Force flew operations in support of peshmerga &hellip; <a title=\"Iraqi air assets help Kurds\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54386\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iraqi air assets help Kurds<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}