Kurdish Fighters Called a Truce, but Turkey Kept Up Lethal Strikes
Turkey is still bombing armed Kurdish insurgents in Iraq and Syria, even after their leader urged them to lay down their arms and disband, and their group declared a cease-fire.
Iraq
‘We cleared rubble with our bare hands’: Iraqis rejoice as shattered Mosul rises from the ruins
City damaged during occupation by Islamic State group reopens 850-year-old mosque in time for Ramadan as reconstruction gathers pace In the small courtyard of Sara’s grandmother’s house, children are running and playing as if time had never passed. “T…
Jailed Kurdish leader calls for PKK to disarm – in shift that could shake up Turkey and Middle East
Abdullah Öcalan’s message, which follows four decades of guerrilla warfare, will have far-reaching implications The ageing leader of a Kurdish militant group imprisoned on a remote Turkish island has called on the group to disarm and dissolve itself, o…
Iraq accuses Israel of seeking pretext for future attack
DefenceTalkIraq has accused Israel of attempting to legitimize an attack on its territory, after the Israeli foreign ministry protested to the United Nations about attacks by Iraqi militants. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a loose alliance of armed gr…
Iranian Hackers Targeting Iraqi Government: Security Firm
Hackers believed to be operating on behalf of the Iranian government have deployed malware to Iraqi government networks.
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U.S. Strikes Back: Cipher Brief Experts Weigh in on What it Means
SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE – Last week’s retaliatory strikes by the U.S. for the killing of three American military service members in Jordan last weekend, lasted only 30 […] More
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Australia went to war in Iraq based on ‘oral reports’ to cabinet from John Howard
Cabinet papers from 2003 show there was no formal submission before decision was taken to join US-led ‘coalition of the willing’Morrison government failed to give Howard-era national security cabinet papers to national archivesSliding doors: cabinet pa…
US says it hit two sites in Iraq in response to attacks
Baghdad (AFP) – US forces carried out new strikes against two sites in Iraq early on Wednesday in retaliation for attacks by “Iran and Iran-backed groups,” US Central Command said. The US military “conducted discrete, precision strikes against two fa…
U.S. Conducts Airstrikes Against Iranian Proxies in Iraq
The airstrikes followed an earlier exchange in which a U.S. gunship spotted and fired on militants after they launched missiles at Al Asad Air Base.
U.S. Conducts Airstrikes Against Iranian Proxies in Iraq
The airstrikes followed an earlier exchange in which a U.S. gunship spotted and fired on militants after they launched missiles at Al Asad Air Base.