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STRONG EARTHQUAKE IN IRAN-IRAQ BORDER AREA KILLS HUNDREDS
The head of Iranian Red Crescent said more than 70,000 people were in need of emergency shelter... READ MORE›
IRAN-IRAQ EARTHQUAKE: RESCUERS IN RACE FOR SURVIVORS
In 2003, a 6.6 magnitude earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam in southeastern Iran, killing some 26,000 people... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 135 KILLED AS STRONG QUAKE ROCKS IRAN-IRAQ BORDER
In 1990, a 7.4-magnitude quake near the Caspian sea in northern Iran killed 40,000 people and left 300,000 more injured and half a million homeless... READ MORE›
STRONG EARTHQUAKE HITS IRAQ AND IRAN, KILLING MORE THAN 130[1]
At least 129 people were killed in Iran's Kermanshah province on the Iraqi border, the provincial deputy governortold state television... READ MORE›
'100,000 FLEE KIRKUK' SINCE IRAQI ARMY TAKEOVER
Baghdad has retaken five oil fields from Kurdish forces in Kirkuk, leaving the Kurds in control of only one in the province... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDS' INDEPENDENCE DREAMS TURN TO DESPAIR AS THEY QUIT KIRKUK AS ALLY U.S. SITS ON THE SIDELINES
In the face of the Iraqi advance, Kurdish forces retreated from Kirkuk, handing the strategic territory to Baghdad with barely a whimper... READ MORE›
IRAQI, KURD FORCES IN KIRKUK STANDOFF AS TENSIONS RISE
The Kurds have deployed thousands of Peshmerga fighters to the area around the city itself and have vowed to defend it at any cost... READ MORE›
JALAL TALABANI LAID TO REST IN SULAIMANIYAH FUNERAL
Talabani was one of the longest-serving figures in contemporary Iraqi Kurdish politics, but for much of the past 40 years, he opposed successive governments in Baghdad... READ MORE›
IRAN AND IRAQ PUT ECONOMIC SQUEEZES ON IRAQI KURDS
Iraq and Iran have turned to economic weapons in retaliation for Iraqi Kurdistan's independence referendum, with Baghdad closing the Kurds' airspace to int... READ MORE›
IRAQI BAN ON FLIGHTS TO KURDISH CITIES BEGINS FRIDAY
Iraq's Transport Ministry ordered international airlines to halt service to Erbil, the Kurdish regional capital, and Sulaimaniyah, its second city... READ MORE›
IRAQ ORDERS KURDISTAN TO SURRENDER ITS AIRPORTS
The Kurdistan Regional Government antagonized Iraq, Turkey and Iran by holding the referendum on Monday... READ MORE›
ERDOGAN WARNS OF 'ETHNIC WAR' RISK OVER IRAQI KURDISH INDEPENDENCE VOTE
Large numbers turned out in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region for Monday's vote, which went ahead despite fierce objections from Baghdad, Turkey and Iran... READ MORE›