Ankara (Reuters/IraqiNews.com) President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Iraqi Kurds to lower the Kurdish flag raised in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, warning that failure
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(Reuters) Kurdish militants detonated a bomb which killed three Turkish soldiers in southeast Turkey, a provincial governor’s office said on Tuesday, adding that five rebels were killed in
Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) The provincial council of Kirkuk voted Tuesday for running a referendum on the province’s secession from Iraq and joining the autonomous Kurdistan Region, further heating
(Reuters) Air strikes killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib on Tuesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights said. Syrian government or
Sinjar (BasNews) Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu stated that Turkey will consider a military operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Sinjar, northern Iraq. “[Turkey]
Erbil (BasNews) It is time for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Baghdad to begin serious discussions over an “amicable divorce,” KRG spokesperson told Daily Hürriyet. “We should
Erbil (BasNews.com) Nouri al-Maliki, head of Iraqi Dawa Party and former Iraqi PM, who is regarded as a strong opponent to the Kurds’ right to self-determination, stated that
(Reuters) The Shi’ite populations of two pro-Syrian government towns are to be evacuated in exchange for the evacuation of Sunni rebels and their families from two opposition-held towns
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi Vice President Osama al-Nujaifi condemned Tuesday the decision by local authorities in Kirkuk to raise the Kurdish flag above official facilities as “a breach of
(Reuters) The northern Syrian city of Raqqa is expected to join a decentralized system of government being set up by Syrian Kurdish groups and their allies once it is