Tag: Iraq
Reconstruction in the Yazidi heartland is being hampered by administrative and security uncertainty On the seven-year anniversary of the genocide at the hands of the Islamic State group (IS), Farhad Barkat, a Yazidi activist and translator, is ...
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s U.N. ambassador on Wednesday called a proposal to reopen a border crossing from Iraq to Syria’s northeast for delivering humanitarian aid “a non-starter.” He also refused to say what will ...
Turkish forces bombed the vicinity of a Christian village in Duhok province in the early hours of Tuesday morning, damaging several buildings, including the village church, locals have told Rudaw. “It was around 2:40 am ...
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s parliament is set to consider legal bids to lift the immunity from prosecution of 21 pro-Kurdish MPs, applying more pressure on a political party targeted in a years-long crackdown and that ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday directed U.S. military airstrikes in eastern Syria against facilities belonging to what the Pentagon said were Iran-backed militia, in a calibrated response to rocket attacks against ...
KURDISTAN National Congress (KNK) co-chair Ahmed Karamos offered to mediate in negotiations today in a bid to stave off a deadly intra-Kurdish war in northern Iraq as regional tensions escalate. Peshmerga forces associated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party ...
TURKEY has been accused of intimidating and interrogating Kurdish villagers in the border area of Iraq, blocking farmers from their land and handing them over to mercenaries. Agricultural workers have spoken of their arrest by ...
It’s easy to dismiss the recent Turkish uproar over a Joe Biden video as political theater. The video, from a conversation between the Democratic presidential candidate and the New York Times editorial board, is eight ...
RUMOURS that de facto Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Cemil Bayik was killed by a Turkish air strike in Iraq on Tuesday night were dismissed today as state propaganda. Reports carried on various news wires and in ...
In the space of a few short years, Iran has supplied its militia proxies across the Middle East with unprecedented drone capabilities, significantly upping the stakes for its regional adversaries. Iran’s proliferation of drones in ...