Iraq`s First Lady Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed Iraq`s First Lady Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed has asked the US to stop treating Kurds as disposable proxies in the war against Iran, declaring, "We are not guns for hire...

Iraqi national security advisor Qasem al-Araji The Iraqi national security advisor said that the country will not allow any groups based in the Iraqi soil to cross the border into Iran to carry out acts of terror, especially as the Islamic Republic is fighting off the US-Israeli aggression...

Image shows the damaged radar system in the Al Udeid military base...

A view of the town of Sheladize after the Turkish airstrikes, in the north of Dohuk province close to the Turkish border, Iraq June 22, 2020...

In this file picture, Turkish soldiers stand guard as Kurdish people seek to enter Cizre, a town subject to curfew as part of an operation against PKK militants in southeastern Turkey...

A member of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) carries an automatic rifle on a road in the Qandil Mountains, the PKK headquarters in northern Iraq, on June 22, 2018...

Despite a wide range of internal, regional, and international opposition, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) held a referendum on independence late on September, forcing the region into a new crisis after Iraq and the whole West Asian region saw some calm following defeat of ISIS terrorist group in Iraq’s Mosul, Syrian forces and their allies’ anti-terror triumphs, and also emerging cooperation of the powers Russia, Iran, and Turkey to push for regional peace...

Thousands of civilians have returned to the Iraqi city of Kirkuk after fleeing as government forces pushed Kurdish militants out of the oil-rich city and established security...

Iraqi soldiers have raised their country’s flags over key buildings in Kirkuk, and Baghdad has declared the Kurdish city be under government control...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Iran and Turkey are anchors of stability in the Middle East region, and fighting terrorism is top on the agenda of the two countries...

Israel basically welcomes the breakdown of each country and even seeks to provide the necessary fields for the division of countries...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will seal its border with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region over a contentious independence referendum the semi-autonomous region held on Monday, threatening the Kurdish leaders with blocking their key oil exports...

Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region is holding an independence referendum in the face of strong objections from the central government in Baghdad and in defiance of urgent calls from the international community to scrap the vote...

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last week visit of the Latin American countries and talks with the Argentina president supported establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, and said that Tel Aviv backed the aspirations of the Iraqi Kurds for statehood...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that he will discuss with the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi a controversial plan in the Arab country’s autonomous Kurdistan region for holding a referendum of independence on September 25...

Opportunities to found an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq are sliding almost to zero as an array of sides, most importantly the central Iraqi government and the people themselves, as well as regional and international sides have come against the expected September 25 independence referendum...

 Like other regional countries, Iraq is home to multiple ethno-sectarian groups, including Arabs, Kurds, Turkmen, and minorities such as the Assyrians, Akkadians, Yazidis, and Armenians...