Timeline: Key dates of Daesh in Iraq, Syria
Beirut: Daesh has been driven from most of the swathes of territory it once held in Iraq and Syria, now reduced to pockets of the…
Iraq
Iraq Is Not Iran’s Puppet
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Iraq is, once again, deeply embroiled in crisis. For three years, the central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish region fought together…
Turkey: 13 Killed in Clashes Between Troops, Kurdish Rebels
ANKARA — Turkey’s military says eight Turkish security force members and five Kurdish militants were killed in a clash near Turkey’s border with northern Iraq….
Iraq’s parliament reinstates ban on Israeli flag
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament voted unanimously to activate a lapsed law that criminalizes displaying the Israeli flag in public, an unexpected step that comes in…
Iraq’s Oil Exports Decline as Kurdish Fight Cuts Output
Iraq’s crude exports fell 7 percent in October after the Kurdish region held an independence referendum that sparked fighting with federal troops, interrupting pipeline sales….
Iraq moves to take key border crossing into Turkey from Kurds
Iraq is moving to take control of a key border crossing into Turkey from the Kurdish Regional Government. The Ibrahim Khalil crossing separates the semi-autonomous Kurdish region…
America Never Understood Iraq
Days after the Kurdish Region of Iraq held a controversial independence referendum, Baghdad sent army and militia units to attack Kurdish positions in and around…
Gibraltar’s Father Danny offers frontline pastoral support in Iraq
Gibraltarian Father Danny Hernandez, who has been serving with the Army for close to 18 years, is currently deployed on his third six-month tour in…
Iraqi militia commander brushes off US call to disband
BAGHDAD – With the Islamic State group driven from nearly all of Iraq, U.S. officials have suggested that the thousands of mainly Shiite paramilitary fighters…
Israel Must Recognize An Independent State of Kurdistan
It’s very ironic that all the noise about the Kurdish independence referendum; the battles between Kurdish and Iraqi forces; Turkish, Syrian, and Iranian opposition to…