BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Baghdad heaped pressure on Iraq's Kurds on Wednesday, demanding they cancel their overwhelming vote for independence while parliament urged the Iraqi central government to send troops to take control of vital oil fields held by Kurdish forces. Stepping up efforts ...
Abdel Hamid Zebari with Shwan Mohammad in Sulaimaniyah/ An Iraqi Kurdish man shows his ten ink-stained fingers after casting his vote in the Kurdish independence referendum in the city of Kirkuk/ An Iraqi Kurdish man shows his ten ink-stained fingers after casting his vote in the Kurdish ...
Tehran vowed on Tuesday to stand alongside Baghdad and Ankara against the outcome of an independence referendum staged by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, a day after thousands of Iranian Kurds marched in support of the vote. State media also quoted an army commander as saying that new ...
Kurds celebrate to show their support for the independence referendum in Duhok, Iraq, September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Ari Jalal/ LONDON (Reuters) - Tehran vowed on Tuesday to stand alongside Baghdad and Ankara against the outcome of an independence referendum staged by Kurdish authorities in ...
Turkish and Iraqi troops are pictured during a joint military exercise near the Turkish-Iraqi border in Silopi, Turkey September 26, 2017. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/ LONDON (Reuters) - Tehran vowed on Tuesday to stand alongside Baghdad and Ankara against the outcome of an independence referendum ...
Thousands of Iranian Kurds marched in the streets to show their support for an independence referendum staged by Kurdish authorities in neighbouring Iraq, defying a show of power by Tehran which flew fighter jets over their areas. Iranian officials and media have denounced Monday’s vote as a ...
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri (R) and his Iraqi counterpart Major General Othman al-Ghanmi (L) meet in Tehran on September 27, 2017. (Photo by ISNA)/ The military brass of Iran and Iraq have met and held talks amid a controversial referendum in Iraq’s ...
A brawl involving three people on a busy Los Angeles freeway was captured on video earlier this week and shared with KTLA. The incident occurred around 2 p.m. Tuesday on the 10 Freeway near Normandie Avenue in the Adams-Normandie neighborhood, according to “I was stuck in traffic and came upon a ...
Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court in Los Angeles, Oct. 4 2022. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File)/ NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s highest court on Thursday overturned ’s 2020 rape conviction, finding the judge at the landmark trial prejudiced the ex-movie mogul with ...
In interviews with investigators last year, former aides and national security officials who were close to Trump in the White House described a president who could erupt in anger when presented with intelligence he didn't want to hear, who routinely reviewed and stored classified information in ...
Bettersten Wade speaks to the attendees of her son Dexter Wade's funeral service in Jackson, Miss. Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Looking on are the Rev. Al Sharpton, right, who delivered the eulogy, civil rights attorney Ben Crump, background, and one of her son's daughters, Jaselyn Thomas. Bettersten ...
A mother will search anywhere for her missing child. And while she has the strength, she will never stop./ For four days Kareema Elras has moved through the noise, dust and overpowering stench of the mass graves at Nasser hospital./ She is the mother of 21-year-old Ahmed, who was killed on 25 ...
This undated photo provided by University of Wisconsin Marketing & Communications, shows UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow. The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Interim Chancellor Betsy Morgan has started the process in late March 2024, to strip Gow, the former chancellor who was fired over his ...
Satellite images show two new tent encampments in southern Gaza as reports suggest Israel's military is preparing for an offensive in the city of Rafah./ Rafah, by the border with Egypt, is the only city in Gaza it has not yet entered. Well over a million people have been sheltering there for ...
Activists of Jammu and Kashmir Dogra Front shout slogans against Chinese President Xi Jinping next to a banner showing the logos of TikTok and other Chinese apps banned in India during a protest in Jammu, India, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)/ NEW DELHI (AP) — The hugely popular ...
More than six months into the devastating Gaza war, its impact on the Israeli and Palestinian economies has been huge./ Nearly all economic activity in Gaza has been wiped out and the World Bank says the war has also hit Palestinian businesses in the occupied West Bank hard./ As Israelis mark ...
Megan Thee Stallion arrives at the Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, May 15, 2022, in Las Vegas. A photographer who worked for the hip-hop star said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday, April 23, 2024, that he was forced to watch her have sex, was unfairly fired soon after and was ...