The Iraqi Border Guard: to protect Kurdistan borders

Shafaq News / The Minister of Interior in Kurdistan, Rebar Ahmed, met on Thursday the commander of the Iraqi Border Guard Forces, Lieutenant General Hamid Al-Husseini.

Ahmed tweeted that Lieutenant General Al-Husseini stressed during the meeting the commitment of the Iraqi government to protect border security from outlaw militants.”

The tweet followed a meeting between the two parties to discuss the Turkish air strike in northern Iraq that killed two members of Iraq’s border guard and their driver.

Earlier, Iraq’s foreign ministry then said Baghdad canceled a visit by Turkey’s defense minister to the country, and summoned the Turkish ambassador to inform him of “Iraq’s confirmed rejection of his country’s attacks and violations”.