In this Sept. 24, 2017 file photo, the President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, speaks to reporters during a press conference in Irbil, Iraq. A Kurdish official said Sunday, Oct. 29, 2017, that Barzani, has informed parliament that he'll not stay in office as his term ...
Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani casts his vote during Kurds independence referendum in Erbil, Iraq September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari/ SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan's veteran leader Masoud Barzani will not extend his presidential term beyond Nov. 1, a Kurdish ...
Iran has reopened a border crossing with the Kurdish region of Iraq that was closed after last month's Kurdish vote for independence, Iranian state media reported. Iran backs the Shi’ite-led central government in Baghdad in opposing the Kurdish bid for independence, and Iranian-backed militias ...
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi speaks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (not pictured) in Baghdad, Iraq October 23, 2017. REUTERS/Alex Brandon/ BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered a 24-hour suspension to military operations against Kurdish forces in ...
In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, Iraqi security forces gather outside the Kurdish-held city of Altun Kupri on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq. The U.S.-led coalition said Friday, Oct. 27, 2017 that a cease-fire has been reached between Baghdad and Iraq's Kurdish minority, temporarily halting ...
Iraqi forces fire rockets at Kurdish fighters as they push to take the area of Fishkhabur on the border with Turkey and Syria on October 26, 2017. (AFP Photo/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)/ Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi forces set a tight deadline Friday for Kurdish fighters to withdraw from an area on the Turkish ...
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told Iraq’s U.S.-backed prime minister on Thursday that he should not rely on the United States in the fight against Islamic State, seeking to drive a wedge between Washington and one of its close allies./ A display featuring missiles and a portrait ...
Peshmerga fighters relax on a hillside position on the frontline outside the town of Altun Kubri on Oct. 23, 2017 in Altun Kubri, Iraq. Iraqi forces and Kurdish fighters have clashed over the past week after Iraqi forces took over the disputed city of Kirkuk in reaction to last month’s ...
A UN report into the Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA has concluded it must do more to improve its neutrality, staff vetting and transparency./ But the independent review also said that Israel had failed to back up a claim that many of the agency's staff belonged to terror groups./ Some of ...
An Uber driver from Southern California is looking to spread the word on the potential risks associated with being a rideshare driver after he was violently assaulted by a passenger over the weekend. that he comes to the L.A. area from his home in the Antelope Valley on the weekends since there ...
Donald Trump won’t be getting his way in his New York hush money trial—at least, not without consequences. Presiding Judge Juan Merchan decided Monday that prosecutors can cross-examine the former president on prior judgements and gag order violations. This is only relevant if Trump takes the ...
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (AP) — Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with ...
A premature baby was saved when doctors performed an emergency caesarean in Rafah, after the city was hit by Israeli air strikes on Saturday night. Her mother, Sabreen, could not be saved, and died along with the baby's father and sister. Medics said the baby was born in respiratory distress and ...
which sparked settler rampage/ A Palestinian man has been arrested over the murder of a 14-year-old Israeli boy, whose disappearance from an outpost in the occupied West Bank sparked a deadly rampage by settlers./ Benjamin Achimeir went missing on 12 April after going to herd sheep near the ...
Trump Organization civil trial in New York State Supreme Court in New York/ tried to convince a judge on Monday that the insurer that provided the former U.S. president with a $175 million bond in his New York civil fraud case was empowered and strong enough to issue the guarantee. The bond ...
North Korean illustrators and graphic designers appear to have helped produce work for US animation studios unbeknownst to those companies, suggesting that unreleased episodes of a few popular American cartoons could include work from one of the most closed-off economies in the world. The ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Terry Anderson, the globe-trotting Associated Press correspondent who became one of America’s longest-held hostages after he was snatched from a street in war-torn Lebanon in 1985 and held for nearly seven years, has died at 76. Anderson, who chronicled his abduction and ...
Joey Jackson is a criminal defense attorney and a legal analyst for CNN and HLN. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more It was a little more than a year ago, on April 3, 2023, that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg against former President Donald J. Trump. Now the ...