After Threat of War, Iraq and Kurds Lower the Temperature
ERBIL, Iraq — The world could be excused for thinking that another war was about to break out in Iraq. After Iraq’s Kurds voted in…
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Turkey raises oil threat after Iraqi Kurds referendum
Turkey has threatened potentially crippling restrictions on oil trading with Iraqi Kurds after they backed independence from Baghdad in a referendum that has alarmed Ankara…
Iran And Turkey Prepare For War In Iraq, Talk Peace With Russia In Syria
Traditional Middle East rivals Iran and Turkey have found themselves united of late by their mutual opposition to Kurdish independence in Iraq and common interest…
Turkey’s Erdogan, Iraq’s Abadi to discuss Iraqi Kurdish referendum
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi this week to discuss their concerns about an independence referendum in…
Iran and Syria Sponsored The Hezbollah-ISIS Prisoner Swap
The prisoner swap between Hezbollah and ISIS on August 28 that saw the release of over 300 ISIS militants and 8 Hezbollah militants and one…
US Defense Secretary arrives in Iraq
US Defence Secretary, Jim Mattis, arrived in Iraq on Tuesday, just days after the start of an offensive to take back the city of Tal…
Daesh douses 12 caged people with oil and burn them alive in Iraq
The civilians, which included a family of four, were forced into cages and were doused with oil before the extremists set them alight in the…
Syrian desert: Iran drew line in the sand
Ali Hashem writes, “The war for the Syrian Desert is in fact a war for the heart of the Middle East. The Iranian-led coalition in…
86 killed in Turkish shelling on Kurdish positions
The United States criticized Turkey’s unauthorized airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, categorizing them as harmful to the Coalition’s mission, after the strikes killed…
Mosul: Iraqi forces push deeper into west part of city
US-backed Iraqi forces pushed deeper into western Mosul on Saturday, advancing in several populated southern districts after punching through the defences of Islamic State’s last…