Baghdad, Iraq – – AFP A senior military official in Baghdad said Tuesday that a drone which killed three Kurdish counterterrorism officers had originated in Turkey, and condemned the violation of Iraq’s sovereignty. Three members of the counterterrorism forces of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region were killed and three wo...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – The Iraqi government said Tuesday it had disarmed and relocated armed groups opposed to Iran from northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. In a statement, Iraq’s Higher Committee said the offices of the anti-Iran groups were evacuated and that they were disarmed and relocated to areas away from the border. It said the […]...
NEW YORK (AA) – Türkiye will have an opportunity to “build a new world” with steps taken on Iraq’s Development Road Project linking southern Iraq to its neighbor Türkiye, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday. Speaking at the Concordia summit in New York, where he is taking part in UN General Assembly meetings, President [&h...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Saturday its security forces had arrested a cell of “counter-revolutionaries” who entered the country from northern Iraq’s Kurdish region. The cell “affiliated with counter-revolutionary groups” planned to “foment chaos and prepare media propaganda,” Mehdi Ramezani, deputy gover...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein is expected to visit Tehran on Wednesday as a September 19 deadline for Baghdad to disarm Kurdish armed groups looms. Bilateral relations and regional and international issues will be discussed during the visit, with the focus primarily on a recent security agreement between the two sides...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 16 people, mostly Iranian pilgrims, were killed in a road accident in northern Iraq, health authorities said on Saturday. Thirteen other people were seriously injured in the accident, Khaled Burhan, director of health services in Salaheddin province, told the state news agency INA. He said the accident took place when [&...
ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – Iraq has notified the United Nations of Iran’s halt of the flow of the Little Zab River into the country. Originating in Iran, the Little Zab River traverses the northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah before meandering its way to Kirkuk and eventually into the heartland of Iraq. The river is a […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq has denied that a mobilization of US forces within its borders has anything to do with the country itself, saying it is solely about Syria. Khaled al-Yaqoubi, the security adviser to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, spoke exclusively about the stepped up presence of American troops in Iraq in recent […]...
Paris, France — AFP A member of an elite French commando unit has been killed in Iraq while “supporting an Iraqi unit in an anti-terrorist operation”, French President Emmanuel Macron’s office said. Sergeant Nicolas Mazier, an air force paratrooper, “fell in combat while carrying out his mission”, the Elysee...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has said that it has reached an agreement with the Iraqi government on disarming and relocating “armed ‘terrorist’ groups” in northern Iraq by next month. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani told reporters that the Iraqi government has “committed to disarming the armed separatist ‘terrorist̵...
