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Iraq's Kurds set for contentious independence vote
Sep 24, 2017 (AFP)
Iran upped the pressure on Sunday, announcing it had blocked all flights to and from Kurdistan at Baghdad's request. Iraq's federal government has called the re...
Kirkuk stocks up ahead of referendum; Turkey warns of 'security' steps
Sep 23, 2017 (AFP)
People in the city fear the situation could deteriorate if the plebiscite set for Monday goes ahead, as the oil-rich province is disputed between the federal go...
U.S. to provide over 6,500 Humvees to Afghanistan
Sep 22, 2017 (UPI)
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, falls under foreign military sales and provides the expanded capacity M115 HMMWV. The production ...
India cross-border firing kills six Pakistani civilians: military
Sep 22, 2017 (AFP)
The incident occurred within the last 24 hours near the frontier dividing Indian-held Kashmir from Pakistan's Punjab province, known as the working boundary, Pa...
US watchdog highlights slapdash training to Afghan police
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
American assistance to the Afghan army and police has topped $70 billion since efforts to build the security forces began following the 2001 US-led invasion, bu...
Turkey mulls options, rallies support to oppose Kurdish state
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
Ankara's displeasure over the referendum, which is planned for September 25, is shared not only by the government in Baghdad but also by its sometimes prickly n...
UN Security Council warns against holding Iraqi Kurd vote
Sep 21, 2017 (AFP)
In a unanimous statement, the 15-member council said the referendum planned for Monday could hinder efforts to help refugees return home and weaken the military...
Erdogan demands Iraqi Kurds call off referendum
Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)
"Steps such as demands for independence that can cause new crises and conflicts in the region must be avoided. We hereby call on the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Gove...
Israel sees benefits in independent Kurdistan: experts
Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)
Iraq's Kurdish region plans to hold a non-binding referendum on statehood on September 25 despite the objections of Baghdad and neighbouring Iran and Turkey, as...
Yes or no? Independence referendum splits Iraqi Kurds
Sep 19, 2017 (AFP)
In Arbil, capital of the Kurdish Regional Government, the streets are currently teeming with red, white and green Kurdish flags. Some people have even resprayed...
Iraqi Kurds push ahead with referendum to pressure Baghdad
Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani announced the referendum in June and has pushed ahead with the vote despite strong opposition from regional powers, the Kurd...
Most of 3,000 extra US troops to Afghanistan on their way: Mattis
Sep 18, 2017 (AFP)
Trump last month announced a new Afghanistan policy to knock back the Taliban, who are continuing to mount deadly attacks, control large areas of territory and ...
Iran warns Iraq Kurds independence means end to border deals
Sep 17, 2017 (AFP)
"Border agreements stand only with the central government of Iraq, and secession of Kurdistan region from the central government of Iraq would mean the blocking...
NATO to decide on Afghanistan troop question in one month
Sep 17, 2017 (AFP)
During a meeting of the NATO Military Committee in Tirana on Saturday, defence chiefs from 29 members of the organisation "recognised the need to fill the curre...
UN urges Iraqi Kurds to drop referendum, hold talks
Sep 16, 2017 (AFP)
Jan Kubis, the top UN envoy in Iraq, offered international backing for immediate negotiations between the country's federal government and the autonomous Kurdis...
US drone kills three in Pakistan tribal belt
Sep 15, 2017 (AFP)
Pakistani officials said the strike took place in remote Ghuz Ghari village in Kurram agency, close to the Afghan border where at least five fighters from the A...
Iraq, Turkey step up pressure over Kurd independence vote
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
Parliament, at Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's request, fired the governor of the northern province, Najm Eddine Karim, in a unanimous vote by 173 MPs present ...
Iraq MPs vote against Kurdish independence referendum
Sep 12, 2017 (AFP)
The non-binding referendum planned for September 25 has faced strong opposition from neighbouring Iran and Turkey, which fear it will stoke separatist aspiratio...
Trump wins support for Afghan strategy in volatile Helmand
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
They may need it. At the hot, dusty Camp Shorab, where many of the recently deployed Marines train their Afghan counterparts in flat, desert terrain, the Afghan...
Kurd rebels in Iraq mountains shrug off Turkey-Iran threats
Sep 07, 2017 (AFP)
A spokesman for the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) said reports of a joint Turkish-Iranian military operation against Kurdish rebels in Iraq were ...
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