ERBIL — Additional Iraqi forces are expected to be deployed to Sinjar where an armed group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Sunday threatened to shut down all Iraqi government institutions.
The Sinjar Resistance Unit (YBS) earlier the day informed all Iraqi government institutions, except the department of police, in Sinjar to evacuate employees and close down the public offices without providing any clear reasons.
Rejecting the PKK threatenings, Nineveh Governor Najim al-Jabouri said that all of the public offices in Sinjar will be reopened and that the Ninevah Operations Command has begun deploying reinforcement to the region of Sinjar.
Ezdin Shamo, a Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) official in the area, told BasNews earlier the day that the PKK had brought a number of locals, who were mostly women, to Sinune in Sinjar, to protest against the deployment of an Iraqi Army force to the town.
The supporters of the YBS later clashed with the Iraqi forces and set fire to an armored vehicle, the Kurdistan Region's Counter Terrorism Service confirmed the report in a statement, noting that two YBS supporters were injured.