Turkish warplanes have hit rebel Kurdish bases in northern Iraq for the last two nights. The strikes aimed at bases used by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) following an attack by the separatists that killed nine Turkish troops and another 14 injured in the attack in the district of Cukurca, in Hakkari province. No casualties were [...]
The release Friday of five Iranians held by the U.S. military in Iraq for two and a half years highlights the long-simmering conflict between the U.S. and Iraqi views of Iranian policy in Iraq and of the role of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) there. For the Barack Obama administration, as for the George [...]
Relations between Iraq’s various Kurdish, Arab, and Turkmen ethnicities are going through a new round of complications since a provision in the draft constitution of the country’s northern Kurdistan region declared a range of disputed areas part of the historical Kurdish homeland, infuriating non-Kurds in the country. All this comes against a backdrop of already [...]
