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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 425

Iraqi Kurds

A Kurdish peshmerga fighter affiliated with the Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP-Iran) stands guard on a building following an Iranian cross-border attack in the town of Koye (Koysinjaq), 100Km east of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on October 1, 2022. (Safin Hamid/AFP)
October 30, 2024, 8:59 pm
Iran claims to have killed member of separatist group with ties to Israel
State media outlets reports two other people arrested after infiltrating from Iraqi Kurdistan with plan to cause ‘riots, terror and insecurity’
By AFP and ToI Staff
A member of the Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture (KCAC) scans the pages of an old book as part of an effort to digitize historic Kurdish volumes and manuscripts, in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk on February 13, 2024. (Safin HAMID / AFP)
March 10, 2024, 9:32 am
‘Sacred job’: Iraqi Kurds digitize aging manuscripts to save vulnerable culture
Archival crew pursues rare documents that offer insight into nation’s history, carefully scans them for website set to launch in April
By AFP
In this image taken from video footage provided by Iranian military on September 29, 2022, missiles launch during an attack targeting the Iraqi Kurdish region. (Iranian military via AP)
November 15, 2022, 10:58 am
At least 1 killed, 8 wounded as Iranian missiles strike northern Iraq
Renewed attack by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition group in Iraq’s Sulimaniyah province
By SAMYA KULLAB
In this image taken from video footage provided by Iranian military, September 29, 2022, a missile is launched during an attack targeting the Iraqi Kurdish region. (Iranian military via AP)
October 6, 2022, 9:45 am
Iranian Kurds exiled in Iraq scapegoated by Tehran amid protests over Amini’s death
Iran needs someone to blame for stoking nationwide protests, and Iranian Kurds are the ‘weakest link that could be targeted without provoking consequences,’ analyst says
By Shwan Mohammed and Tony Gamal-Gabriel
Smoke billows in the village of Zrgoiz, near Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, where the bases of several Iranian opposition groups are located, September 28, 2022. (AP PhotoAla Hoshyar, Metrography)
September 29, 2022, 4:37 pm
Iraq summons Iranian ambassador following deadly drone bombing campaign
Iranian drones targeted an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 32
By AP
Screen capture from video of a car damaged in a drone attack in Erbil, Kurdish Iraq, June 8, 2022. (Twitter)
June 9, 2022, 12:38 am
Three reported hurt as drone strikes near UAE consulate in Iraq’s Kurdistan
Explosion occurs on road near Erbil some 3 kilometers from where US is building new mission; no claim of responsibility
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative - In this file photo taken on November 17, 2016, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters stand on a sand barrier created by Kurdish forces to demarcate their border, in the Nineveh plain, northeast of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
December 6, 2021, 11:33 am
4 Iraqi Kurdish fighters killed, 5 wounded in attack blamed on Islamic State
Kurdish forces do not say how troops were killed in assault on outpost north of Kirkuk; it is 3rd attack on fighters blamed on IS jihadists in less than 2 weeks
By AFP
Iraqi Kurds wave an Israeli flag and Kurdish flags during an event urging people to vote in an independence referendum in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, September 16, 2017. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
November 27, 2020, 7:21 pm
‘It makes us feel hopeful’: Iraqi Kurds watch as Israel befriends old Arab foes
Many welcome normalization as positive sign for their own independence dreams, but some analysts say rapprochement unlikely due to geopolitics, despite shared history
By Qassim Khidir
Iraq's Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi speaks during a funeral ceremony in Baghdad, on October 23, 2019. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP)
December 1, 2019, 10:40 pm
Iraq’s PM Adel Abdel Mahdi, consensus leader, brought down by street fury
The 77-year-old veteran politician was seen as a unifying figure among Iraq’s divided factions and international allies, but popular rage at endemic graft doomed his government
By AFP
US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen Pence arrive with turkey to serve to troops at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019. The visit is Pence’s first to Iraq and comes nearly one year since President Donald Trump’s surprise visit to the country. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
November 23, 2019, 6:05 pm
Pence makes surprise Iraq trip to reassure Kurds, greet troops
US vice president stays out of Baghdad for security reasons, speaks to Iraqi PM by phone after he declines to visit him on military base
By Zeke Miller
Syrian Arab and Kurdish civilians flee with their belongings amid Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern town of Ras al-Ain on October 9, 2019. (Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP)
October 11, 2019, 6:55 am
Turkey’s Syria offensive could displace over a million Kurds, top analyst warns
Jonathan Spyer says Erdogan’s army indiscriminately shelling civilian areas, though unlikely to carry out massacres; believes Kurds will reject Israeli offer of humanitarian aid
By Raphael Ahren
Aryeh Deri, head of the Shas party, greets supporters as the results in the Israeli general elections are announced at the party headquarters in Jerusalem, April 09, 2019. (Flash90)
April 18, 2019, 11:33 pm
Let Iraqi baby into Israel for emergency surgery, group implores minister
Officials tell Jerusalem-based medical NGO that interior minister ‘unreachable’ until after Passover, but Shevet Achim says clock is ticking for two-month old Roman
By Tamar Pileggi
Yazidi Iraqi women queue in order to get food at the Bajid Kandala camp near the Tigris River, in Kurdistan's western Dohuk province, where they took refuge after fleeing advances by Islamic State jihadists in Iraq on August 13, 2014. Photo credit:AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
April 13, 2019, 3:00 pm
Syria Kurds return 25 Yazidis freed from IS to Iraq
US-backed fighters say they rescued some 300 Yazidi women and children during the fight to take the jihadists’ last scrap of territory in eastern Syria
By AFP
In this Jan. 29, 2015 file photo, a fighter of the Turkey-based Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) uses his binoculars to look towards the Islamic State Group's base in the city of Sinjar, northern Iraq. (AP /Bram Janssen)
March 18, 2019, 3:56 pm
Turkey, Iran launch joint raid against Kurdish rebels – minister
Military operation begins on Turkey’s eastern border with Iraq and Iran, where Kurds have been seeking independence
By AFP
This frame grab from video posted online January 18, 2019, by supporters of the Islamic State group, purports to show a gun-mounted Islamic State group vehicle firing at members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour, Syria. (Militant Photo via AP)
February 22, 2019, 4:32 pm
From Syria, IS slips into Iraq to fight another day
Cells operating in four northern provinces are carrying out kidnappings, assassinations and roadside ambushes aimed at restoring extortion rackets that financed group in the past
By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and PHILIP ISSA
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