Nobel Peace Prize-winner Nadia Murad marks Yazidi festival in Iraq ghost village

A tearful Nadia greets friends in a village on the outskirts of Sinjar (Tom Westcott/MEE) KOCHO, Iraq - A grief-stricken Nadia Murad broke down in tears when she saw the photograph of her mother, among hundreds of pictures of dead and missing former …

Turkey strikes PKK in Iraq despite government complaint

Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters patrolling on the front line in the Makhmour area, near Mosul (AFP) Turkey again targeted Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq on Saturday, a day after Baghdad formally complained that repeated Turkish air strikes …

Turkey Will Keep Attacking PKK in Iraq

Official Hails Growing Trend in Iran's Exports to Iraq

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The secretary general of Iran-Iraq joint chamber of commerce highlighted an upward trend in the export of Iranian products to Iraq. - Economy news - In a meeting with Iranian and Iraqi trade delegations, Hamid Hosseini pointed to a …

Iraq summons Turkish envoy over air strikes: foreign ministry

ANKARA (Reuters) - Iraq's foreign ministry on Friday summoned Turkey's ambassador in Baghdad to protest over what it called repeated airspace violations, after Turkish warplanes earlier carried out strikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq …

Turkish Air Force eliminates 7 terrorists in northern Iraq

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 15 By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend: Turkish Air Force conducted airstrikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the Zap and Hakurk districts of northern Iraq, the General Staff of Turkey told Trend on Dec. 15. According to …

Turkey Violates Iraq's Airspace Again for Airstrikes on Kurds

Baghdad, which has expressed opposition to Turkey’s incursions into Iraq, came out against the strikes. Referring to the strikes, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) reports that “Turkish warplanes neutralized eight PKK terrorists in northern Iraq,” …

Politics: What Stanley McChrystal learned from Al Qaeda's leader in Iraq before leading the operation to kill him

As head of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq, now-retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal led the effort to take out Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Al-Zarqawi, as the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, sought to ignite a sectarian conflict in the country after the US …

Karim Wasfi's 'Spontaneous Compositions' Aid Stability In Iraq

"The continuous impromptus of performing after car bombs, I believe that it is an empowering element of solidarity...," Karim Wasfi says. Zaid Al-Oeidi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Zaid Al-Oeidi/AFP/Getty Images …

Turkey vows to continue airstrikes in Iraq despite Baghdad's protest

ANKARA Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu Turkey will continue its anti-terror operations in northern Iraq’s Sinjar region as long as terror groups exist there, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Dec. 15, following the Iraqi government's …