IPhini likaMongameli wase-US uJoe Biden uhlangane noNdunankulu wase-Iraq uHaider al-Abadi nezinye izikhulu eziphezulu ekuhambeleni okungamenyezelwanga eBaghdad nase-Arbil ngo-Ephreli 28 ukukhombisa ukweseka uhulumeni olwa ne-Islamic State of Iraq kanye neLevant (ISIL) phakathi nezinkinga zezepolitiki nezomnotho. .
Bekungokokuqala ngqa ukuvakasha kukaBiden, umuntu ophambili e-White House e-Iraq, selokhu amasosha aseMelika ahoxa ngo-2011 ngemuva kweminyaka ecishe ibe yisishiyagalolunye ehleli. Ube yisikhulu sesithathu nesisezingeni eliphezulu saseMelika ukuvakashela kuleli kule nyanga.
Uhambo lukaBiden, olunezinyanga ezimbalwa ezinhlelweni, luwuphawu lwenqubekelaphambili iWashington ekholelwa ukuthi amasosha ase-Iraq ayenzile ekubuyiseleni amasosha ngonyaka odlule futhi ithemba layo lokuthi idolobha elisenyakatho yeMosul lingaphinde lithathwe ngaphambi kokuthi uMengameli waseMelika uBarack Obama ashiye isikhundla. Januwari 2017.
"Lokhu kuyinkomba enhle yokuqhubeka kwe-United States nokweseka imizamo kaNdunankulu u-Abadi yokuhlanganisa isizwe sase-Iraq ukuze sibhekane ne-ISIL," kusho umkhulumeli we-White House uJosh Earnest.
Indawo yakhe yokuqala ngo-Ephreli 28 kwaba eBaghdad lapho ahlangana khona no-Abadi kanye noSomlomo wePhalamende uSalim al-Jabouri ukuze baxoxe "ngenqubekelaphambili" ekulweni ne-ISIL, okuhlanganisa nezinhlelo zokubuyiswa kweMosul.
“Kuyiqiniso. I serious. Kuzibophezele,” kusho uBiden etshela izintatheli.
Izikhulu zase-Iraq zithi zizophinde ziyithathe iMosul kulo nyaka kodwa, ngasese, abaningi bayabuza ukuthi kungenzeka yini lokho.
Kamuva wandizela e-Arbil, inhloko-dolobha ye-Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), ngesidlo sakusihlwa semizuzu engu-90 nomongameli wesifunda, uMassoud Barzani, ukuze baxoxe ngokuhlaselwa kweMosul lapho amabutho amaKurdish peshmerga kulindeleke ukuthi abe nendima ebalulekile.
I-peshmerga iqhamuke njengengxenye esemqoka yesu lomfelandawonye oholwa yi-US “lokwehlisa isithunzi nokucekela phansi” i-ISIL, iqhubekisela phambili amavukela-mbuso enyakatho ne-Iraq ngosizo lweziteleka zomoya naphezu kwenkinga yezimali okwenze kwaba nzima ukukhokha amaholo.
