We were paying salaries while we lack the money, we have started blowing some big fish out of the water and we’ll go after them until the end.

We are coming to liberate Mosul and it will be the fatal and final blow to Daesh.

I call upon those who have been misled or committed a mistake to lay down arms and join their people and security forces in order to liberate their cities.

The area we have liberated so far is more than half of what was occupied by Daesh before, we intend this year to make it the final year and the last year for the existence of Daesh in Iraq.

No. 1, is a marked increase in the air campaign and the delivery of arms, there has been an increase that is noticeable. I am thankful for that but we want to see more.

This military strategy is inseparable to implementing political reconciliation in Iraq, there isn’t on one side the military and on the other political.

We want to see more.

Unfortunately the (Kurdistan) region has not complied with it until now.

With her loss the whole world has lost one of the great energies that served society.

Oil prices have dropped to about 40 percent of their level last year. Iraq’s economy and budget relies 85 percent on oil and this has been disastrous for us.

We are in this almost on our own, there is a lot being said and spoken, but very little on the ground.