Iraq

Iraqi premier orders hoisting of national flag in Kirkuk, other Kurdish regions

Oct 16, 2017 12:50

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered the hoisting of Iraqi national flag in the country’s oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk as well as other areas under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
Iraqi forces retake military base, strategic sites in Kirkuk

Oct 16, 2017 12:45

Iraqi forces have gained control of the main military base in Kirkuk as well as other strategic locations in the oil-rich province from Kurdish fighters.
Iraqi forces take control of ‘vast’ regions in disputed Kirkuk

Oct 16, 2017 04:01

Iraqi forces say they have taken control of “vast areas” of Kirkuk following clashes with Kurdish Peshmerga forces who had occupied the oil-rich region.
Iraqi govt.: PKK presence in Kirkuk amounts to declaration of war

Oct 15, 2017 16:48

The Iraqi government has accused authorities of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of bringing militants from Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to the disputed oil province of Kirkuk, saying it considered the move as a "declaration of war."
Nearly 700,000 Iraqis still displaced months after Mosul recapture: NGO

Oct 15, 2017 14:30

An independent humanitarian organization says hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced from Iraq’s strategic northern city of Mosul, which served as Daesh terror group’s last urban bastion and its de facto capital in the Arab country, months after government forces and their allied fighters liberated it from the clutches of the extremists.
Iran rejects closing land border with Iraq’s Kurdistan region

Oct 15, 2017 14:30

Iran has rejected reports that the country has closed its land border with the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan Region in response to last month’s independence referendum in the region.
US defense chief urges Iraq, Kurdish forces for restraint amid rising tensions

Oct 15, 2017 04:50

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis has urged Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces against facing each other and rather focus on overcoming the Daesh (ISIL) terror group amid surging tensions between the two over the disputed, oil-rich Kirkuk region in northern Iraq.
Kurdish Peshmerga refuse calls to evacuate Iraq’s Kirkuk

Oct 15, 2017 02:24

Kurdish troops in Iraq have rejected a call from governmental forces to withdraw from a strategic location in Kirkuk’s southern region.
Iraqi premier rejects army, allies plan attack on Kurdish Peshmerga forces

Oct 12, 2017 13:05

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has rejected an attack plan against the positions of Kurdish Peshmerga forces amid ongoing tensions between the central government in Baghdad and Kurdish authorities over the September 25 referendum.
At least 11 killed, 15 wound in bombing in Iraq’s Anbar Province

Oct 12, 2017 03:10

At least 11 civilians have been killed in a bomb explosion in the western Iraqi city of Hit in Anbar Province.