KM ANIK
24 UPDATE
28/10/2017
Country Bases "USA Secretary of State"
Reported in BANGLADESH
Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters reached an agreement yesterday to stop fighting in northern Iraq, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said, although the status of any ceasefire remained unclear.A spokesman in Baghdad for the US-led coalition against Islamic State earlier said the deal covered all fronts in the conflict, which broke out after Kurdish authorities held an independence referendum last month in areas of northern Iraq.However, he later told Reuters that the truce had not been officially agreed, while an Iraqi military spokesman declined to comment.According to the KRG, which is based in the Kurdish autonomous region's capital of Erbil, the ceasefire entered effect at 1:00 am yesterday."The ceasefire is holding," Vahal Ali, the director of KRG President Masoud Barzani's media office, told Reuters. "Diplomatic efforts are underway to set a date for talks to start between Erbil and Baghdad."
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi urging for dialogue to start, the Iraqi central government said in a statement.Iraqi government forces, Iranian-backed militias and Kurdish troops fought alongside each other to defeat Islamic State, also called ISIS, but the alliance has faltered with the militants largely defeated in the country.
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