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Iran continues missile attack on Iraq’s Kurdistan

Iran yesterday renewed its artillery attacks on Iraqi villages and border towns north of the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region, causing fires in forest areas and other material damages and displacing dozens of families. Kurdish media outlets quoted security sources in the Peshmerga as saying that "the Iranian artillery shelling targeted the Horani area within the Soran district, north of Erbil" without causing casualties. The Iraqi-Kurdish […]

today4 October 2022

International

Iraq: Eight killed by Turkish shelling on popular tourist resort in Kurdish region

INTERNATIONAL At least eight people have been killed and dozens wounded in a Turkish artillery attack on a tourist resort in the Dohuk province of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. State media said all of those killed by the "fierce artillery bombing" were tourists. They included two children, three men and three women. The raid took place at the Barkh resort in Duhok’s Zakho district, Kurdish MP Chiya Hamid Sharif told Middle East Eye. 'Turkey is bombing […]

today20 July 2022

International News

Iraqi Kurds vote in independence referendum

People in Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan are voting in an independence referendum, amid rising tensions and international opposition. Polls opened at 05:00 GMT with balloting also taking place in the disputed areas between the northern city of Erbil and the capital Baghdad, as well as the oil-rich province of Kirkuk, which is ethnically mixed. The central government in Baghdad, which strongly opposes the referendum, sought control of the region's […]

today25 September 2017

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