The long-lived tacit row between Turkey and Iran has come to the fore again with a new occasion. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian stated in a special session in parliament on May
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On Monday, ahead of a planned attack, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq announced that its security units had arrested members of a group affiliated with the PKK terrorist organization. PKK
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Iraq’s Education Ministry said on Monday that classes at schools in Iraq were suspended for one day due to a heavy sandstorm. The heavy sandstorm, which started in the morning in many
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An Iraqi official said on Wednesday that Iranian forces targeted areas near the northern Iraqi city of Erbil in artillery strikes. Ihsan Chalabi, a senior official in the region’s Sidekan area, indicated
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The need to promote stability in Sinjar to prevent terrorists from having a foothold in the area was underlined by Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, in a statement on Monday. In order
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According to a recently published Pentagon analysis, the PKK terror group is coordinating with Iran-backed militia groups against Turkish forces in northern Iraq. Iran-backed militants have recently “increased attacks against Turkish forces
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The current Turkish military operation in northern Iraq represents an advanced stage in the series of operations that began in May 2019, and aims to eliminate the threat of the Kurdistan Workers’
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Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday that nearly 700 families have left Sinjar in northern Iraq following Monday’s clashes between the Iraqi army and a PKK-affiliated militia called Sinjar Resistance Units. According
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Officials have stated on Sunday that six rockets hit the Khabat district of Erbil, the capital of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). In a statement, the KRG’s anti-terror unit confirmed the
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A few days ago, Iraq witnessed angry crowds storming, burning and destroying most of the mosques and offices of representatives of the Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi in the provinces of central and
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