Tag: Iraq

Syria's Kurds have ended up at the heart of Middle Eastern geopolitics – here's why Clemens Hoffmann, University of Stirling; Can Cemgil, Istanbul Bilgi University,...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani discussed Kurdish independence, the fate of areas outside the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) administration and Erbil-Baghdad...

Islamic State supreme leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been seen near Nineveh’s borders with Syria, apparently in a poor health condition, sources told Alsumaria...

Iraq's border with Syria has long been porous. Just days after the US initiated their invasion of Iraq back in 2003 Syrian Islamists flooded...

Iraqi forces aim to dislodge Islamic State militants from west Mosul within a month, despite gruelling urban combat in densely populated terrain, the head...

As we enter the tenth day since the Iraqi military began its assault to capture the western half of Mosul, it would perhaps be...

Sons of Iraq: Mosul will only recover if we heed the lessons of the US invasion Pui Hang Wong, United Nations University After months of fighting,...

Mosul is just the first item on Iraq's list of critical problems Balsam Mustafa, University of Birmingham The operation to retake Iraq’s second city of Mosul...

The Iraqi air force has targeted a meeting of commanders from the Islamic State group that its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been attending,...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Following US President Donald Trump signing an executive order on Friday to ban for 90 days the issuance of visas...