Telkaif (Agenzia Fides) - The "Babylonian Brigades", formation of popular protection militias who also count Christian militias in their ranks, have told the Kurdish militia Peshmerga to abandon all areas of the Nineveh Plain under their control, receiving the rejection of military contingents that respond to the government of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan. In the past few days, the Peshmerga had arrested some members of Ryan al Keldani’s clan (Ryan "The Chaldean" in the photo), head of the so-called "Babylon Brigades". Kurdish sources reported that the Peshmerga deployed in the Nineveh Plain will respond militarily to all armed components that will try to cross the border of the areas they control.

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17.10.2017