Iraq’s Abadi heads to Iran for regional security talks
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is set to meet Iran’s leaders for talks on regional security, including the future of Iraq’s Kurdistan and the role…
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Kurds offer to freeze independence vote to end fighting with Iraq
Iraqi Kurdish leaders offered Wednesday to freeze the outcome of last month’s vote for independence, taking a step back in a major crisis that prompted…
Iran spoiled a plot to create second Israel in Iraq: Iranian official
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Quds commander Qassem Soleimani have spoiled an American-Israel plot to create a second Israel in…
How Iraq crushed the Kurds’ dream of independence
We crossed the Kurdish frontline without realising. It did not amount to much on the morning of 16 October; a few lightly armed men in…
Tillerson seeks Arab help in US effort to isolate Iran
DOHA, Qatar — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the Trump administration’s case for isolating and containing Iran in the Middle East and beyond…
U.S. Tried and Failed to Stave Off Iraq’s Advance on the Kurds
The U.S. nearly brokered a deal last weekend to avert the current crisis over the disputed city of Kirkuk, where Iraqi forces and some Iranian-supported…
Iraq’s military declares mission accomplished in Kirkuk
Iraq’s military says it achieved its objectives in a lightning-quick operation that saw troops sweep through disputed Kurdish-held territory in a punishing riposte to an…
Kurdistan and Iraq tensions lift oil prices
Oil prices rose above $57 a barrel on Friday as tensions between Iraqi government forces and Kurdish peshmerga intensified near the oil-rich city of Kirkuk,…
US must prevent Kurd-Iraq conflict under Iran influence: Ex-ambassador
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A former American ambassador to Iraq has called for the US to act in order to prevent possible conflict between Kurds…
What is left of ISIL in Iraq?
Far from the force that swept across Iraq in mid-2014 and seized control of nearly a third of the country, ISIL today has been weakened…