Swedish journalist Magda Gad on sight: Kurdish forces clash in northwestern Iraq

Google translate (Didn't bother translating myself from Swedish to English): The night of the day fighting broke out between the two Kurdish groups in Khanasor near the town of Sinjar in northwest Iraq, towards the border with Syria. Sinjar is the place where IS massavrättade minority group yazidier August 2014 and took yazidiska boys as child soldiers and yazidiska girls and young women as sex slaves. Older women were executed when they were not considered good enough as sex slaves. Many unexcavated mass graves found in Sinjar. November 2015 was freed from Sinjar IS and since then, various Kurdish and even yazidiska armed groups remained there - of different political parties and various armed forces who have different checkpoints. Although Turkish Kurdish PKK are in Sinjar (stamped terrorist group at war with Turkey) with their own checkpoints and flags and the Iraqi KRG region has always wanted to get the PKK. In the week made the KRG's leader Masoud Barzani a state visit to Turkey, which is considered to have triggered off this armed conflict - Barzani-KRG-Kurds, moreover, the Kurds who educates the Swedish soldiers in northern Iraq. The fighting broke in the night out of Rojava Peshmerga, a group of about 5000 Syrian Kurds who are in northwest Iraq with the support of Barzani / KRG, and the group Shingal Resistance Units (YBS), which consists of about 8500 Kurds and yazidier with the support of the PKK . It is reported that a person has died and seven injured in the fighting, and that both sides should have taken four prisoners each. The hope is that the fighting will move in the negotiations. Locally, it is described as the Syrian Rojava Peshmerga, which then cooperates with Turkey and Barzani / KRG, in turn, is in conflict with the Syrian YPG Kurds. Syrian YPG are those who make offensive against IS in northern Syria in alliance with Sunni Arabs in the name of the SDF, which will be bombed by Turkey. YPG is the armed wing of the political Syrian Kurdish party PYD and their opposition party is Syrian Kurdish political party KNC that has the armed wing Rojava Peshmerga, which is thus in alliance with the Iraqi Kurdish Brazani / KRG (whose political party called KDP). I understand this sounds messy. I remember the first time I met a yazidier - we went by car in the desert and he explained to me that everyone is always at war with each other and that IS never been yazidiers single threat and that there will always be a new IS. - And it will not be a new IS will Kurds fighting each other, he told me in June, 2016.

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