Kurdistan refuses to hand over the Peshmerga’s weapons or dissolve and integrate them into the federal forces.
Kurdistan refuses to hand over the Peshmerga’s weapons or dissolve and integrate them into the federal forces.
8-22-2026
Information/Erbil…
Independent Kurdish politician Didar Haval revealed on Saturday that Masoud Barzani’s government has refused to comply with the federal government’s decisions regarding the handover of weapons by the Kurdish Peshmerga militia, its disbandment, or its integration into the Ministry of Defense or the Ministry of Interior. The government considers the surrender of Kurdish forces’ weapons a “red line that cannot be crossed.”
Haval told the Information Agency that “Masoud Barzani’s government rejected a new request from the federal government to hand over or integrate the Peshmerga’s weapons in order to control the proliferation of weapons in the region after the emergence of leaders from the ruling party who possess armed factions that are not subject to the regional or central government.” He explained that “the regional government informed the central government of its rejection of all initiatives to disarm Kurdish factions, emphasizing that the weapons of the regional guard are a red line whose sanctity cannot be violated, and we will not negotiate their surrender, no matter the challenges.”
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