Q&A: Mustafa Sayid Qadir, Minister of Peshmerga Affairs
Kurdistan's defense minister spells out the kit needed to take back towns from ISIS, and says the KRG has to "unify and institutionalize" the Peshmerga.
Mohammed Sayid Qadir, the KRG Minister of Peshmerga, in his office in Erbil. (SEBASTIAN MEYER/Iraq Oil Report/Metrography)
ERBIL - In June, when militants from the so-called Islamic State (formerly the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, or ISIS) launched their major offensive to capture much of northern Iraq, Kurdish officials hoped that the autonomous region would stay above the fray.
Kurdish Peshmerga solidified control over territories long claimed as their own, after the Iraqi Army fled in the face of the ISIS advance. The KRG now shares a 1,050 kilometer border with a mix of ISIS, Baathist groups and other Sunni insurgents.
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