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Declared capital rocka the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces say the battle could take hours or days the fight to retake the city began in june with the backing of the u. S. Led coalition also in syria state t. V. Is reporting that Government Forces and allies have retaken the eastern town of al maya dean for myself dean was one of the last remaining pockets in Eastern Syria still held by the group from hashem who is following developments from a tie on the turkey syria border the syrian army saying very has. This city or bell mayor dean in this is a Major Development is also a major setback for the. Fighters in is this because the moment they started losing ground. They started moving pulling out troops were getting softer word deals or hundreds of fighters have lost. Now that there we have lost the mayor the others porter to how to word the city of all the border with iraq so were talking about i say losing significant ground in the eastern part of the country now as far as the wh
With them as human shields as part of a deal brokered by tribal leaders some about as more from an taqiyya turkeys border with syria. Negotiations are still underway in iraq to convince foreign fighter to live the city i mean tribes and fighters from the have been have been trying to. Convince foreign fighters affiliated with ice to leave in exchange for free passes now were getting some conflicting reports about what is happening now some say that its just a matter of time before everyone leaves that are others suggest that some of the battle hardened. I see the fighters say that they are committed to fighting to the death now the u. S. Led coalition has been distancing itself from this deal saying that it wont tolerate to see those foreign fighters leave and then resurface in different parts of the country but this remains a very crucial moment. Though remains confident that its just a matter of a few hours before they can officially declare that iraq back in trouble if that happens
Areas in the Oil Rich Region and if you come on the told reuters that the aim is to take and have base and oil fields well kurdish leaders met earlier to discuss tensions with iraq following last months a session referendum theyve rejected the iraqi governments demand to stop any push for independence but theyve been used in office for talks to resolve the crisis. That has more from ed a bill in northern iraq. The Iraqi Military saying that this operation is being spearheaded by the ninth Armored Division the federal police and counterterrorism units they saying that the thousands of shia militias are very much in a supportive role we understand that this offensive is focused on oil fields to the north the west in the south of that oil rich city of kirkuk and also the k. One a military base k. One military base was taken control of by Kurdish Peshmerga in two thousand and fourteen after the iraqi army fled and eisel offensive at kirkuk is hugely important for the k r g and for the Iraq
Terms of the monitoring which i do agree is important. I think within a year well probably, you know, given with all respect to the Planning Department and dbi it will take time for people to consider this and get through the process so within a year we wont see a large number but after that well start to see the results. So colleagues no comments or questions well open this up for Public Comment. Ill say that the president of castro Eureka Valley association as well as the executive director of open house which provides services for lgbt seniors both wanted to be here they have the flu but we have others. With that, ill call our fully comment cards calling names and you can speak in any order good afternoon bill with the Legal Referral Panel we provide services for people with aids and housing is our important issues its important for people to have caesars access to Affordable Housing. It would be great to have new section 8s coming into the castro and a ways ways to create Affordabl