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….
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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…
Turkey: Erbil should declare referendum ‘null and void’
ANKARA The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) should declare the referendum “null and void” as “everyone” expects, the Turkish presidential spokesman said on Wednesday. Speaking at…
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…
Assad sets sights on Kurdish areas, risking new Syria conflict
t Bashar al-Assad and his Iranian allies appear to have been emboldened by events in Iraq, where Kurdish authorities have suffered a major blow since…
Russia invites Kurds to Syrian people’s congress – Kurdish official
BEIRUT, Oct 31 (Reuters) – Russia has invited the Kurdish-led authorities in northern Syria to its proposed congress of Syria’s rival parties, a senior Kurdish…
Kurdish official denies Iraqi forces control Turkey crossing
IRBIL, Iraq — An Iraqi Kurdish official is denying reports that Iraqi federal forces have taken control of a key border crossing between Turkey and…
Syrian, Iraqi Kurds main sufferers of failed US, KRG policies
The U.S. strategy to back the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), dominated by the PKK terror organization’s Syria affiliate, the Democratic People’s Union (PYD) and its…