Tag: Iraq

A recent agreement between Erbil and Baghdad on the status of Sinjar region has appeared to be a tipping point for recent clashes between the PKK terrorists and the Kurdish ...

The Kurdish region of Iraq held elections on 30 September – a year after a troublesome period. The elections were planned to take place almost a year earlier on 30 ...

After two years of stormy relations with Turkey, Haider al-Abadi, the former Prime Minister of Iraq, managed to establish workable relations with Turkey. Had he won the election, he would ...

The long delayed Iraqi Kurdistan Parliamentary elections were finally held on Sunday, September 30th. According to the preliminary results, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) seems to increase its seats in the ...

  Turkey is both "concerned" and "ready to contribute positively" to recent events in Iraq and Syria, Davutoglu said "What we are trying to prevent is a Kurd-Arab conflict in ...

Davutoglu met Massoud Barzani, leader of regional Kurdish administration. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Massoud Barzani, head of the regional Kurdish administration in the north of Iraq, in Davos ...

Breaking Away From Baghdad The mood in Erbil, Sulaymaniyah, and Dohuk -- the three largest cities in Iraqi Kurdistan -- is newly buoyant these days, and with good reason. Iraq's ...

At least 10 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a political office in northern Iraq, officials say. More than 90 people are reported to have been injured ...

2012 was a tough year in terms of Turkish foreign policy. 2013 may prove to be an even more interesting and challenging year in terms of regional problems. We have ...

Street protests in Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland pose a new challenge to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as shock waves from the Sunni-led insurgency in nearby Syria strain his country's fragile political ...