The 7.3 magnitude quake on Sunday hit the Iraqi town of Halabjah, southeast of Sulaymaniyah, a city in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq... READ MORE›
READ MORE Iran-Iraq earthquake What happened and why Fatemeh said people were screaming and wailing in the streets following the major temblor... READ MORE›
The head of Iranian Red Crescent said more than 70,000 people were in need of emergency shelter... READ MORE›
With the deadline past, Mr. Abadi instead ordered the federal forces to push into Kirkuk, and then farther north toward the Turkish border... READ MORE›
The court is responsible for settling all disputes between Baghdad's central government and regional provinces... READ MORE›
Prior to the independence referendum, the Kurds fought alongside Iraqi forces in their US-backed campaign against Islamic State terrorists... READ MORE›
Erbil's friends and foes alike had strongly opposed the holding of the referendum, leaving Barzani isolated before it was held and marooned ever since... READ MORE›
Barzani's legacy The president only recently re-activated parliament to vote through the controversial September 25 referendum on secession, which Barzani wanted to be his legacy... READ MORE›
Fighting broke out between Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Oct. 16, after Iraqi forces seized the northern oil city of Kirkuk... READ MORE›
To work on the deployment of federal Iraqi forces in all disputed areas, including Fish-Khabur, and the international border, Abadi said in a statement... READ MORE›
Speaking to reporters in the Iranian capital Tehran on Thursday, Abadi said his government had warned Iraq's northern Kurdish region against holding the referendum... READ MORE›
People in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq voted to secede on September 25 in a referendum, amid rising tensions and international opposition... READ MORE›
Tillerson and Abadi, along with Saudi King Salman, also participated in the inaugural meeting of the Saudi Arabia-Iraq Coordination Committee in Riyadh on Sunday... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces have claimed control of all of Kirkuk province after intense fighting against Kurdish Peshmerga forces... READ MORE›
Iraqi federal police and counter-terrorism forces, along with Hashd al-Shaabi fighters, have deployed in... READ MORE›
Baghdad has retaken five oil fields from Kurdish forces in Kirkuk, leaving the Kurds in control of only one in the province... READ MORE›
The Kurds say the referendum acknowledges their contribution in confronting Islamic State after it overwhelmed the Iraqi army... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces also said on Tuesday they seized the Yazidi Kurdish town of Sinjar from the Peshmerga... READ MORE›
But an aid group working in Kirkuk said several Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Iraqi soldiers had been killed in an overnight clash south of the city... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces claim rapid progress in operation to 'impose security' on kirkuk... READ MORE›
Kurdish forces call Iraqi forces' campaign in Kirkuk 'a declaration of war', as PM Abadi tells them to cooperate... READ MORE›
But an aid organization working in Kirkuk said several Peshmerga and members of the Iraqi forces had been killed in an overnight clash south of Kirkuk... READ MORE›
But an aid group working in Kirkuk said several Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and Iraqi soldiers had been killed in an overnight clash south of the city... READ MORE›
On September 25, Iraqi Kurds voted in a controversial secession referendum, amid rising regional tensions and international opposition... READ MORE›
That experience and disputes between the Kurdish government and Iraqi national authorities have kept most big oil companies away and prompted some investors to pull back... READ MORE›
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Erbil, said Kurdish forces in and around Kirkuk have vowed to defend it to the last man ... READ MORE›
Washington had downplayed Iraqi troop movements since Kurdish leaders first sounded the alarm early on Thursday... READ MORE›
Baghdad continues to reject decades-old Kurdish ambitions to incorporate Kirkuk and other historically Kurdish-majority areas in their autonomous region... READ MORE›
Move comes after Kurdish authorities said they feared Iraqi forces were preparing to launch an assault on the region... READ MORE›
Iran and Turkey are both part of the Astana negotiations aimed at effecting closure in Syria... READ MORE›
Many international coordinators say they are marching in solidarity with US women, but that human rights and not Donald Trump are the focus... READ MORE›
President Trump signed the controversial executive order that halted refugees and residents from predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States... READ MORE›
Refugees who were in the air on the way to the United States when the order was signed were stopped and detained at airports... READ MORE›
More than 92 percent of voters in Iraqi Kurdistan back independence... READ MORE›
Mr. Kushner was also expected to meet with officials from the United States-led military coalition and Iraq's minister of defense, according to an Iraqi military spokesman... READ MORE›
Ten-year-old Reem has severe burns on 70 percent of her body after her home in Iraq's Ramadi was hit by a grenade... READ MORE›
Iraqi Kurdish oil is exported through Turkey and its southern Ceyhan port, a key economic lifeline for the region... READ MORE›
The Iranian and Iraqi armies will hold joint drills at several crossings on Iran's border with the autonomous Iraqi region of Kurdistan, according to officials... READ MORE›
UN Alleged Mosul chemical attack amounts to war crime... READ MORE›
OPINION Regional implications of the Kurdish independence vote Earlier on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim blasted the referendum as adventurism that puts Turkey at risk... READ MORE›
By the time the Islamic State swept through northern Iraq in 2014, that figure had fallen to roughly 400,000... READ MORE›
In the last week following the Kurdish referendum, Turkey has held joint military exercises with Iraq... READ MORE›
People in the cities of Sanandaj, Baneh and Saghez of Kurdistan province held peaceful gatherings congratulating their Iraqi fellow Kurdish-speaking people, broadcaster IRIB reported... READ MORE›
Parliament committee calls on Baghdad to 'reciprocate' travel ban on Americans as Iraqis express sense of betrayal... READ MORE›
Masoud Barzani, the president of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government KRG, announced the vote on Twitter on Wednesday... READ MORE›
Recalling a Tortured Past, Iraqi Kurds to Vote on Independence... READ MORE›
The Kurdish news agency Rudaw, citing Erbil health department officials, said at least one child had died and more than 800 people were affected... READ MORE›
Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barxani said he hoped to maintain good relations with Turkey and the referendum was not a threat to Ankara... READ MORE›
Initial results in Kurdish referendum in northern Iraq show a majority supporting independence from Baghdad... READ MORE›
A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013... READ MORE›
RELATED Donald Trump vows to 'demolish and destroy' ISIL ISIL fighters launched a counterattack against advancing US-backed Iraqi forces in western Mosul during an overnight storm... READ MORE›
If you corner your enemy and don't leave an escape, he will fight till the end, said a Kurdish official involved in planning the Mosul battle... READ MORE›
Dozens of women and children killed while trying to escape west Mosul, as Iraqi army seeks to close in on ISIL fighters... READ MORE›
Iraq's top court has ordered the suspension of the Kurdistan Regional Government's KRG planned referendum on independence... READ MORE›
All three countries have been conducting military exercises near the border of Iraqi Kurdistan this week... READ MORE›
Shooting and car-bomb attacks claimed by ISIL kill at least 74 people in Iraq's southern Thi Qar province... READ MORE›
The Kurdistan Regional Government antagonized Iraq, Turkey and Iran by holding the referendum on Monday... READ MORE›
President Obama has vowed to deal the Islamic State crippling blows in Mosul and Raqqa before he leaves office... READ MORE›
Foreign airlines suspended flights to the region's Erbil and Sulaimaniya, obeying a notice from the government in Baghdad, which controls Iraqi air space... READ MORE›
Meanwhile, in Erbil, Iraqi forces have forcibly displaced at least 125 families with alleged links to ISIL, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday... READ MORE›
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