INTERNATIONAL Iraqi President Barham Saleh on Tuesday encouraged early legislative elections to settle a political crisis that escalated into deadly clashes this week, leaving dozens dead and hundreds more wounded. Early elections, less than a year after the last polls, have been a key demand of the influential Shia cleric[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iraq’s political crisis has descended into violence, with Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s announcement that he would quit politics sparking protests and clashes that killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more. Iraq’s military announced a nationwide curfew on Monday after shelling and gunfire erupted in the Iraqi capital and protesters[…]
INTERNATIONAL At least eight people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suspected Turkish artillery attack on a tourist resort in the Dohuk province of Iraq‘s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. State media said all of those killed by the “fierce artillery bombing” were tourists. They included two children, three men and three women. Though the Iraqi[…]
INTERNATIONAL At least eight people have been killed and dozens wounded in a Turkish artillery attack on a tourist resort in the Dohuk province of Iraq‘s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. State media said all of those killed by the “fierce artillery bombing” were tourists. They included two children, three men and three women. The raid took place[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi arrived in Iran on Sunday, Iranian state TV reported, a day after he travelled to Saudi Arabia in a bid to revive talks between the regional rivals to ease years of hostility. Over the past year, Iraq has hosted several rounds of talks between Saudi Arabia[…]
Two Turkish soldiers were killed in an ongoing anti-terror operation in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said on Sunday, Anadolu reports. Infantry Specialist Sergeant Omer Yildirim and Infantry Specialist Corporal Mehmet Ali Cap were fatally wounded on Saturday during Türkiye’s counterterrorism Operation Claw-Lock, the ministry said in a statement. The ministry[…]
Forces from the regional Kurdish government have taken control of some oil wells in northern Kirkuk, Iraq’s state-run North Oil Company said in a statement on Saturday, but the Kurdish government denied this, Reuters reports. It said the forces arrived with a technical team from the Kurdish region and took over some[…]
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, Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. The families fleeing the Sinjar district arrived at various safe zones across the region, according to Interior Ministry[…]
Iraq plans to sign a deal next month to import liquefied natural gas from Qatar. According to Bloomberg’s report, Iraq will buy Qatari LNG to secure enough of the fuel used for power generation and to diversify its sources of supply. Qatari LNG will help replace some of the gas currently[…]
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said he was unhurt and appealed for “calm and restraint” after a drone attack on his residence early Sunday as political tensions mounted in the country. The attack in Baghdad’s Green Zone was the first to target the residence of Kadhemi, who has been in[…]
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