Anti-ISIS coalition pays $53 million in Peshmerga salaries

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The US-led coalition versus ISIS has compensated a total of $53 million into accounts of the Ministry of Peshmerga for salaries, claimed Col. David Williams, Director of the Kurdistan Coordination Middle in the Kurdistan Region.

Mixed Joint Process Force-Procedure Inherent Resolve, the official title of the Coalition, “compensated 3 months of stipends to the Ministry of Peshmerga today for a full of $53 million bucks,” Williams explained to Kurdistan 24 on Thursday.

“All Ministry of Peshmerga Regional Guard Brigades will be compensated,” he reported. “This payment catches up with our back again payments and we will go back again to having to pay month to month once more.”

In Could, $50.1 million in cash were being deposited to the accounts of the Ministry of Peshmerga, masking again fork out for the forces for December by way of February.

The stipends are becoming compensated by the Pentagon’s Counter-ISIS Teach and Equip Fund system in Iraq, which also includes Peshmerga in the autonomous Kurdistan Location. By the fund, Peshmerga and Iraqi security forces have also received necessary supplies as ammunition, weapons, food, and gas.

Previous 7 days, Williams advised Kurdistan 24 at a graduation ceremony for Peshmerga forces that the coalition continues to deliver equipment and stipends and supports a partnership with Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

“I’m portion of an advising team that will work largely with the Ministry of Peshmerga, to provide operational tips genuinely focusing on logistics and operations, and then creating certain

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