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Iraq summons Turkish envoy to protest deadly airstrike in Kurdistan region
Apr 17, 2020 01:18Iraq's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Turkish ambassador to Baghdad to protest Ankara’s latest deadly aerial raid on a refugee camp in the Arab country's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Turkey’s deadly drone strike on Iraqi refugee camp draws angry reactions
Apr 16, 2020 09:38Turkey has launched a deadly drone strike on a refugee camp in Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, drawing angry reactions from Iraqi politicians of different factions, who censured the attack as a violation of West Asian country’s sovereignty.
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IRGC: Operation in Iraq start of more strikes against US across region
Jan 09, 2020 14:37Commander of the Aerospace Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has described the IRGC’s recent revenge strikes targeting the US’ Ain al-Assad airbase in western Iraq as only “the starting point of a great operation,” which will grow in sphere to cover the entire region.
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Sadr urges Iraqi parliament to initiate fundamental reforms
Nov 13, 2019 16:45Influential Iraqi Shia Muslim religious scholar Muqtada al-Sadr has called upon legislators to introduce sweeping reforms in the wake of ongoing anti-government protests in the country, dismissing any US and foreign intervention in Iraq’s domestic affairs.
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Erdogan: No talks with Syria Kurds until safe zone established
Oct 16, 2019 12:19President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will never sit at the negotiating table with Kurdish militants in Syria, emphasizing that Ankara’s military operation in the Arab country’s north will come to an end only when the Kurds leave the region and a “safe zone” is established there.
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Turkish forces ‘neutralize’ dozens of PKK terrorists in Turkey, northern Iraq
Aug 25, 2019 09:06Turkish military forces have killed dozens of members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group during a string of counter-terrorism operations in the eastern part of the country and Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
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Iraqi Kurds accuse PKK of Turkish diplomat’s assassination
Jul 27, 2019 11:36Authorities in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have accused members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group of ordering the assassination of a Turkish diplomat in the regional capital Erbil more than a week ago.
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IRGC unleashes fire on terrorist positions along border with Iraqi Kurdistan
Jul 12, 2019 08:48Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has staged a multi-pronged offensive on terrorist positions along the Iranian border with Iraq’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, inflicting heavy losses on them.
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Zarif congratulates Barzani on election as KRG president
May 31, 2019 00:59Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif congratulated Nechirvan Barzani on his election as the new president of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
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Turkey says airstrikes ‘neutralized’ 19 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq
May 30, 2019 15:02Turkish warplanes and attack helicopters have “neutralized” 19 PKK militants in a string of airstrikes targeting their hideouts in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Anadolu news agency reports.