Kurdistan PM, U.S. officials take up security deal
Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Nechirvan Barzani discussed with the commanders of U.S. forces in northern Iraq and in Mosul the long-term security agreement that is scheduled to take place between Iraq and the United States.
Sunday, Barzani received in his Erbil-based office Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling and Maj. Gen. Thomas and discussed with them the security and political situation in the country and the U.S.-Iraq security deal, according to a statement published on Monday on the regional government's official web site.
Acts of violence and the alleged displacement of Iraqi Christians in Mosul city were also tackled during the meeting.
Several Christian families have fled Mosul throughout the past few days, while Iraqi security sources said that a few Christians were killed in separate incidents in the city, signaling an increase in the wave of attacks against religious minorities in the northern volatile city...
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