Al-Monitor: America has been paying the salaries of the Peshmerga for two years
Al-Monitor: America has been paying the salaries of the Peshmerga for two years
9-24-2022
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A report by the American newspaper Al-Monitor revealed that the salaries of the Peshmerga were paid by the so-called international coalition led by the United States, at a value of 20 million dollars per month, two years ago, since the reduction of the US military presence and its transformation into an advisory role in Iraq.
The report, which was translated by the “Information” agency, stated that “the United States provides military support to the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as the renewed agreement, which was signed by the official for international security affairs in the Pentagon, Celeste Wallander, and the Minister of Peshmerga Affairs in the Kurdistan Region, Shoresh Ismail Abdullah, requires a four-year extension of the memorandum 2016 during a ceremony held in Erbil.
US and Iraqi Kurdish officials told Al-Monitor that “the memorandum, which has not been made public, codifies specific guidelines on promoting institutional reform within the Kurdish peshmerga forces, as well as steps for Erbil to continue to place partisan peshmerga units under its unified command.”
US officials see stability in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as key to achieving this goal, but budget shortages and persistent divisions between Baghdad and Erbil mean that the US-led coalition continues to pay peshmerga salaries to the tune of $20 million per month after two full years of reducing states of its military presence and its transformation into an advisory role in Iraq.”
The so-called international coalition led by the United States had reported earlier this year that the non-partisan Regional Guard Brigades of the Ministry of Peshmerga include 47,500 soldiers, while between 40 and 45 thousand of the Peshmerga are still linked to the Kurdistan Democratic Party and between 63 and 68 thousand linked to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.” Ended/ 25 z
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