Daily Brief

Tuesday, August 18

Trump threatens Oman and drones attack Masrour Barzani's office

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Trump threatens Oman

0:23

Ronahî: United States President Donald Trump said in an interview with Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst that if Oman steps out of line, they will turn the country upside down.

Ronahî: Trump also stressed that despite the end of the sixty-day ceasefire with Iran, he has not abandoned his goal of stopping Tehran's nuclear program.

Kamîran: So he is saying the sixty days have ended, yet the main point is still ahead.

Ronahî: According to him, talks with Iran continue through a secret direct channel with the Revolutionary Guards, and he says they are good poker players, but they are dying, and I have no set deadline.

Drones attack Masrour Barzani's office

1:02

Kamîran: Today another piece of news also came from the Kurdistan Region.

Ronahî: The Kurdistan Region's Counter-Terrorism Department announced that at twelve twenty-eight in the morning two drones loaded with explosives targeted the private office of the caretaker prime minister Masrour Barzani and the residence of the head of the Protection Agency in Pirmam.

Ronahî: The counter-terrorism unit said the drones had come from the direction of the Iranian border, and no loss of life was reported.

Kamîran: Mazloum Abdi, as the general commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, also condemned this attack and expressed his support for the government and people of the Kurdistan Region.

Ronahî: Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Zeydi also ordered the formation of an investigative committee to determine the source of the attack.

Weapons handovers continue in Iraq

1:49

Kamîran: Another piece of news also came from Iraq on the same day.

Ronahî: Head of Iraq's Security Media Cell, Seed Meen, announced that three armed groups — the Peace Brigades, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and the Imam Ali Brigades — are continuing to hand over their unregistered weapons.

Ronahî: Meen noted that more than five hundred eighty thousand weapons have been received so far, meaning nearly six thousand weapons per week.

Kamîran: So this is a new step in the process of unifying weapons in Iraq.

Ezidkhan Media Union conference in Sinjar

2:19

Ronahî: In Sinjar, the Ezidkhan Media Union also held its first congress under the slogan, Those whose goals are great, their efforts are also great.

Ronahî: With the participation of fifty delegates and representatives of the Yazidi Free Women's Movement, the People's Council, municipalities and the Diplomacy Committee, the congress was held within the framework of reconstruction efforts.

Kamîran: This is the first time this union has come together in this way.

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