ERBIL/SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurds voted in large numbers in an independence referendum in northern Iraq on Monday, ignoring pressure from Baghdad, threats from Turkey and Iran, and international warnings that the vote may ignite yet more regional conflict. The vote organized by Kurdish ...
Masoud Barzani, president of Iraqi Kurdistan, was last night defiant over his decision to hold a controversial referendum on independence, even as its neighbour Iran mounted pressure by closing its airspace and launching military drills on the border. Tehran announced on Sunday it was blocking ...
Planes pictured on the tarmac at Arbil International Airport, in the capital of the northern Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region, on November 23, 2015 (AFP Photo/Safin HAMED)/ Tehran (AFP) - Iran said Sunday it had blocked all flights to and from Iraq's Kurdistan at the request of Baghdad, a day ...
Men buy sunglasses from a street vendor underneath Kurdish flags in Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. Iraq's Kurdish region will vote on Monday's referendum for Kurdish independence, a vote dismissed as illegal and destabilising by the central ...
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim speaks to media in Kirsehir/ Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim speaks to media in Kirsehir, Turkey, August 23, 2017. Mustafa Aktas/Prime Minister's Press Office/Handout via REUTERS/ ISTANBUL/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Turkey's parliament voted on Saturday to ...
Posters in Kirkuk encouraging people to vote in the planned Kurdish independence referendum (AFP Photo/Marwan IBRAHIM)/ Kirkuk (Iraq) (AFP) - Residents of the multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk north of Baghdad were stocking up with supplies on Saturday ahead of the planned controversial referendum on ...
Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani vows to hold an independence referendum at a press conference in Arbil on September 24, 2017, the eve of the vote, despite angering the country's central government/ Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani vows to hold an independence referendum at a press ...
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman, Bahram Ghasemi speaks during a press conference on August 22, 2016 in Tehran. (AFP)/ “At the request of the Iraqi government, we have closed our land and air borders” with Iraqi Kurdistan, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said at a press conference. ...
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, rear-right, smiles as he listens to opposition lawmaker Engin Altay before the parliament vote during an extraordinary session in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017. The Turkish parliament on Saturday renewed a bill allowing the military to intervene in Iraq ...
Iranian Kurdish girls take part in a rally to urge people to vote in next week's independence referendum in the Iraqi Kurdish region on September 21, 2017 (AFP Photo/SAFIN HAMED)/ Erbil (Iraq) (AFP) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani on Saturday delayed a scheduled news conference on a ...
DUBAI/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iranian forces have launched war games in an area near the border with Iraq’s Kurdistan region, Iran’s state media reported on Sunday, a day before a Kurdish independence referendum in the region. Turkey also said on Sunday its aircraft launched airstrikes against ...
agency/ DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has halted flights to airports in Iraqi Kurdistan at the request of the central government in Baghdad, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Sunday, a day before a Kurdish independence referendum. The agency quoted Keyvan Khosravi, spokesman for Iran’s top ...
Marwan Issa/ Hamas leader Marwan Issa died in an Israeli air strike, White House official Jake Sullivan has said./ As deputy military commander, Mr Issa would be Hamas's most senior leader to die since the war began on 7 October./ The Palestinian group, which controls Gaza, has not officially ...
on Monday said she supported a local New York official’s order with transgender athletes from using county-owned facilities. The ban applies to over 100 athletic facilities in New York City's Long Island suburbs. Speaking alongside Nassau County Executive at his office in Mineola, Jenner said ...
When dawn broke last Monday morning, signalling the beginning of Ramadan, it brought a cruel irony for the people of Gaza./ The holy month when Muslims fast during daylight had arrived amid a looming famine./ Gazans had already endured five months of war. Virtually the entire population was ...
Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds rally in Richmond/ has so far been unable to obtain a bond that would allow him to appeal a $454 million judgment against the former U.S. president in a New York civil fraud case without posting the full amount ...
'The situation here is catastrophic'/ Displaced Gazans have been told to leave the area around the hospital Image caption: Displaced Gazans have been told to leave the area around the hospital Eyewitness have told of how panic gripped those inside al-Shifa hospital after Israeli forces launched ...
area cyclists who helped one of their own escape the jaws of a cougar recounted their story this weekend, saying they fought the cat and pinned it down. The woman who was attacked, Keri Bergere, sustained neck and face injuries and was treated at a hospital and released following on a trail ...
BERLIN (AP) — When Sabine Thonke joined a recent demonstration in Berlin against Germany's far-right party, it was the first time in years she felt hopeful that the growing power of the extremists in her country could be stopped. Thonke, 59, had been following the rise of the Alternative for ...
Israeli forces have launched an overnight raid on the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, with reports of tanks and heavy gunfire at the facility./ An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said the IDF was carrying out a "high precision operation in limited areas" of the hospital./ The IDF said "senior ...
members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us about the mysterious, cult-like, bad-vibes towns they came across in the . And, PHEW, there are A LOT. Here are their chilling responses: Note: Some of these stories contain mentions of racism and sexual assault. Also, apologies if your hometown is on ...
Amedy Dewey, 24, sits on a chair outside her home, holding a portrait of herself as a high school cheerleader in Scottville on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. Dewey lost her vision after her stepfather shot Dewey in the face with a shotgun. He then killed Dewey's mom and killed himself. Dewey, who was ...