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Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq's Kurdistan region, authorities said, as Ankara's top diplomat visited the northern region.Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has long been a target of Turkish air and ground operations against the PKK, which has waged a decades-long insurgency against Ankara.

Twin Turkish drone strikes killed seven members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Thursday, authorities said, as Ankara's foreign minister visited the northern region.Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region has long been a target of Turkish air and ground operations against the PKK. Turkey's military rarely comments on individual strikes.

PARIS, Aug 19, 2023 (BSS/AFP) - A French soldier has been killed in a road accident in Iraq, where he

A French soldier has tragically lost his life in a road accident during a training mission for the Iraqi armed forces, as announced by President Emmanuel Macron on Friday. Sergeant Baptiste Gauchot was severely injured when the vehicle he was in veered off the road, according to France's armed forces ministry. Despite undergoing emergency surgery…

Efforts to reform the Iraqi Kurdish security forces known as the Peshmerga are at serious risk of failing. Tensions between the ruling parties of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region are not new, but the working relationship between the leaders of the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has collapsed over the past year. As a result, officials within the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs are no longer capable of preventing the politics of partisan self-interest from consuming the ref...

Baghdad (AFP) July 27, 2023 - Iraq has arrested a suspect in one of the most notorious war crimes of the Islamic State group, the 2014 massacre of up to 1,700 captive cadets, authorities said Thursday.

A helicopter belonging to the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq crashed Thursday, a Kurdish security official said, after what the coalition described as an "in-flight mishap"."There were no coalition casualties nor damage to coalition or civilian infrastructure. The coalition aircraft was damaged," the coalition said in a statement, adding that the incident occurred at 12:15 pm (0915 GMT).

Arbil, Iraq (AFP) July 22, 2023 - Like other Iranian Kurds who fled into exile during last years women-led mass protests, 17-year-old Sarina tries to keep a low profile in her new home in northern Iraq.

Thousands were arrested in what authorities labeled riots after a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian died in morality police custody

Like other Iranian Kurds who fled into exile during last year's women-led mass protests, 17-year-old Sarina tries to keep a low profile in her new home in northern Iraq.Many Iranian Kurds fled to Iraq, some on tourist visas.