Friday, May 11, 2007
Kurdistan sends troops to Iranian border
Security, Kurdistan
(AFP) - Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has sent 1,000 peshmerga troops to its border with Iran to prevent attacks by the Islamist insurgent group Ansar al-Islam, a spokesman said on Thursday. Major General Jabbar Yawir said an Ansar-allied group calling itself the "Kurdistan Brigades of Al-Qaeda" has repeatedly attacked Iraqi Kurdish forces in the region around the border town of Penjwin.
Labels: Al Qaeda in Kurdistan, Ansar al-Islam, Iran-Iraq border, Kurdistan, Major General Jabbar Yawir, Penjwin, Peshmerga
