Urgent – Maliki orders to form Tigris Operations Command

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Premier, Nouri al-Maliki, tasked the Commander of Diyala Operations Command, General Abdul Ameer al-Zayadi, to assume the responsibility of three provinces.

Zayadi stated to IraqiNews.com “Maliki, as the General Commander of the Armed Groups ordered to task me to head the Command of Diyala, Salah-il-Din and Kirkuk province under the name of Tigris Operations Command.”

“This order comes to coordinate among the three provinces to sustain security,” he concluded.