{"id":3820,"date":"2014-09-14T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3820"},"modified":"2014-09-14T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T06:54:00","slug":"iraq-pm-orders-halt-to-air-strikes-on-civilian-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/09\/14\/3820\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq PM orders halt to air strikes on civilian areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/haidar-alebadi.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>Iraq&#8217;s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday that he ordered his air force to halt strikes on civilian areas, comments that followed government attacks this year which rights groups say have indiscriminately targeted civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;I have ordered the Iraqi Air Force to halt shelling of civilian areas even in those towns controlled by ISIS,&#8221; he said on his official Twitter account, using the former name for the so-called &#8216;Islamic State&#8217; (IS) militant group.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sunni Muslim tribal figures have demanded a freeze on military action on civilian areas as one of the conditions for their support of the Shi&#8217;ite-led government against IS, which controls a third of Iraq.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The United Nation&#8217;s representative in Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, welcomed the comments, which were repeated by Abadi at a conference about refugees on Saturday in Baghdad.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Protection of civilians and ensuring their safety and security is a paramount priority for the United Nations&#8221;, he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Diplomats and Iraqi politicians from across Iraq&#8217;s political spectrum hope Abadi, who formed a cabinet on Monday, can detoxify the political system to form a unified front against IS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>World Bulletin<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq&#8217;s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday that he ordered his air force to halt strikes on civilian areas, comments that followed government attacks this year which rights groups say have indiscriminately targeted civilians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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