Iraqi-KRG counterterrorism cooperation increases in response to attacks

Joint operations between Iraqi Counterterrorism Services and their counterparts in some areas of the Kurdistan Region continue to target Islamic State cells, while other armed groups attack Erbil.
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Rebar Ahmed (C), Interior Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan's Regional Government, speaks during a press conference after an overnight attack in Erbil, the capital of the northern Iraqi autonomous region, on June 8, 2022. - Three people were wounded after an armed drone struck a road in the suburbs, security services said. - SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images
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As discord at other levels grows more acute between the central government of Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), coordination in counterterrorism against alleged Islamic State (IS) operatives continues.

Gen. Yehia Rasoul, the spokesman for the commander-in-chief of Iraq’s armed forces, announced in a June 8 tweet that the Iraqi Counterterrorism Services (CTS) in collaboration with Asayish in the Sulaimaniyah area of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) had arrested three men from the “Takfiri gangs of IS.”

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