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Al-Fateh Parliamentary bloc condemned the attack on the city of Sinjar and called on the government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to register an official complaint with the United Nations, the Security Council, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation regarding repeated Turkish abuses. The Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) …

Turkey 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 the country’s sovereignty. The media office of the Iraqi Joint Operations Command (JOC) said in a …

An Iraqi court has sentenced two suspects to death for the killing of a Turkish diplomat and two Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) citizens in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. The 2nd Criminal Court in Erbil sentenced two people to death over the killing of diplomat Osman Köse and two …

US military forces have reportedly transferred more than 1,500 female members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group from Syria to neighboring Iraq in the wake of a ground offensive by Turkish troops and their allied Takfiri militants against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria. Syria’s official news agency SANA reported that …

Turkey has accused Kurdish militants of violating a temporary truce in northern Syria even as a fragile ceasefire was reported to b holding. Ankara on Thursday agreed to pause its incursion into Syria for 120 hours while the US facilitates the withdrawal of Kurdish SDF militants from a 20-mile safe …

Overall, at least 355 people were killed or found in mass graves during July. Another 127 were wounded. During July, at least 177 people were killed, and 113 were wounded in violence-related to Iraq and the Daesh terrorist group. At least 35 of them were civilians; 19 were security personnel, …

Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has said it identified one of the assailants responsible for the killing of a Turkish diplomat in Erbil. Osman Kose was killed on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire in an upscale restaurant where he was dining in Erbil, the local capital of the semi-autonomous region …

Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed Ali Alhakim chaired his country’s delegation at a security coordination meeting in Turkey. The meeting tackled a raft of important issues, including security cooperation, counter-terrorism efforts, and mutual coordination to achieve aspirations of the Iraqi and Turkish peoples, Alghad Press quoted the Iraqi Foreign Ministry as …