Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will not tolerate a Kurdish safe-haven in Syria following reports that Kurdish rebels and a Syrian Kurdish political party had taken control of large swathes of territory along the Turkish-Syrian border. Erdogan...
Turkey Bombs Kurdish Rebels Just Over Iraq Border
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...
Behind Detainee Release, a US-Iraqi Conflict on Iran
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...
Is Ethnic Strife Inevitable in Iraq?
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...