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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sits after addressing the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
Erdogan threatens military action over Iraqi Kurdish referendum
By Agencies
Turkish leader says his country could halt Iraqi Kurdistan's oil exports over independence vote, which he calls 'matter of survival'
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sits after addressing the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York on September 19, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images/AFP)
September 25, 2017, 3:27 pm
Erdogan threatens military action over Iraqi Kurdish referendum
Turkish leader says his country could halt Iraqi Kurdistan's oil exports over independence vote, which he calls 'matter of survival'
By Agencies
The President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, Massoud Barzani, speaks to reporters during a press conference at the Salah al-Din resort, in Erbil, Iraq, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
September 24, 2017, 8:30 pm
Iraqi Kurdish leader vows independence vote to go ahead despite opposition
Massud Barzani says partnership with Baghdad has 'failed,' urges his people to the polls ahead of Monday's referendum
By Agencies
Iraqi forces advance on September 23, 2017 to recapture the insurgent stronghold of Hawija after retaking the nearby northern town of Sharqat from the Islamic State group on the second day of a new offensive. (AFP/ AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
September 24, 2017, 3:06 am
Iraq says it wants world’s help to build nuclear reactor
Over 35 years after Israeli strike on Osirak, oil-rich country still partially held by IS says it has rights to nuclear power under NonProliferation Treaty
By AP and TOI staff
Iraqi cleric Sheikh Salam Al-Askari gives a sermon on August 28, 2017 praising Jews. (Screenshot/MEMRI)
September 22, 2017, 6:26 pm
Iraqi cleric praises Jews, says Muslims seen as ‘world’s headache’
Shiite clergyman calls on Muslims to imitate Jews, who 'were killed and burned' by the Nazis, but emerged to win 'respect of the world through science'
By TOI staff
Iraqi Kurds fly Kurdish flags during an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 16, 2017. (AFP/Safin Hamed)
September 22, 2017, 12:37 pm
UN warns against holding Iraqi Kurd independence vote
Security Council members concerned by 'potentially destabilizing impact' of Monday's referendum
By Agencies
An Iraqi Yazidi family that fled the violence in the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, sit at at a school where they are taking shelter in the Kurdish city of Dohuk in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 5, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Safin Hamed)
September 22, 2017, 12:16 am
UN sets up probe of IS atrocities in Iraq
Terror group's massacres of Yazidis denounced as genocide
By Carole LANDRY
Iraqi Kurds celebrate while urging people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
September 20, 2017, 10:01 pm
Saudi Arabia urges Kurds to scrap independence referendum
Riyadh official tells Iraqi Kurdish leader to drop plans 'in light of situation in the region'; Israel remains lone country to openly support efforts
By AFP and TOI staff
Iraqi Kurds celebrate while urging people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
September 18, 2017, 2:27 pm
Iraq supreme court freezes Kurdistan referendum
Baghdad says September vote 25 calling for independence of Iraqi Kurdistan may be unconstitutional
By Agencies
Iraqi Kurds celebrate while urging people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on September 8, 2017. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
September 17, 2017, 8:35 pm
Iraq says may use force if Kurdish referendum turns violent
PM Haider al-Abadi says next week's independence vote 'a public invitation to the countries in the region to violate Iraqi borders'
By SUSANNAH GEORGE and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Kurdish protesters demonstrate with placards reading "No to dictatorship" and the portrait of the leader of the Kurdistan PKK Workers' Party, Abdullah Ocalan in the city center of Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on March 18, 2017. (AFP Photo/dpa/Boris Roessler)
September 13, 2017, 12:54 am
Rebuffing former top general, Netanyahu says Kurdish PKK a terror group
PM chides Turkey for not recognizing Hamas as a terror group in kind, expresses support for Kurdish independence
By Joshua Davidovich and Agencies
Illustrative photo of demonstrators chanting in support of the Islamic State in Iraq as they wave flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul. (photo credit: AP)
September 12, 2017, 2:34 pm
Russian jihadist captured in Mosul condemned to die
Court says unnamed man confessed to having carried out attacks on Iraqi forces over past 2 years
By AFP
Fighters of Hashed Al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization units) gather at the Tal Afar airport, west of Mosul, as Iraqi forces backed by local militia and a US-led coalition advanced in driving the Islamic State group from the city, on August 27, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
August 27, 2017, 8:56 pm
Tal Afar residents who fled are back to battle Islamic State
Iraqi Turkmen respond to call by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the highest Shiite authority in the country, to take up arms against jihadists
By AFP
Fighters from the Shiite Popular Mobilization Forces flash the victory sign as they ride in a pickup truck during the advance in the the Islamic State held city of Tal Afar on August 25, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
August 26, 2017, 2:02 pm
Iraqi forces recapture Tal Afar center from Islamic State
General in charge of operation to retake jihadist-held city says troops clashing with final pockets of resistance
By Ali Choukeir and Valerie LEROUX
Fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria, January 14, 2014. (Militant photo via AP, File)
August 23, 2017, 9:56 pm
Interior minister moves to strip IS fighters of citizenship
Announcement comes after Shin Bet releases list of 20 Israelis, including 2 Jews who converted to Islam, that joined the terror group
By AFP and TOI staff
In this Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, Iraqi and Lebanese Shiite fighters from a group called the Hussein Brigade use a helmet to draw sniper fire, during clashes with the Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army, in the town of Hejeira, near Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo, File)
August 23, 2017, 10:13 am
Iran extends reach with fight for land link to Mediterranean
Islamic Republic's regional expansion raises concern in Jerusalem of Tehran's efforts 'to entrench itself militarily on Israel's border'
By Bassem Mroue and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
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