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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 584

Masoud Barazani

Then-Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2010. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
September 17, 2017, 8:45 pm
Iraq vice president warns against ‘second Israel’ in Kurdistan
As referendum nears, Nouri al-Maliki says a country set up on a religious or ethnic base, like the Jewish state, would be ‘unacceptable’
By AP and ToI Staff
Supporters of the ultra-nationalist Turkish Homeland Party protest outside the Israeli embassy in Ankara against what they claim are attempts to establish a "second Israel" in Iraqi Kurdistan, September 15, 2017 (screenshot: Homeland Party website)
September 17, 2017, 11:27 am
Turkish nationalists protest creation of ‘second Israel’ in Kurdistan
Israeli embassy in Ankara evacuated as demonstrators seek to portray upcoming Kurdish independence referendum as Zionist plot
By Sue Surkes
Hebrew writing at the grave of the prophet Nahum, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (photo credit: Times of Israel/Lazar Berman)
September 14, 2017, 8:32 pm
Turkish media claims Israel is sending Jewish Kurds back to Kurdistan
Conspiracy theory of a mass repatriation is making the rounds, ahead of unilateral independence referendum among the Kurds
By Sue Surkes and AFP
US Ambassador to Iraq, Stuart E. Jones and U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Sean McFarland, left, greet Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. upon his arrival at Irbil, Iraq, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2015. (D. Myles Cullen/Pentagon via AP)
October 20, 2015, 10:27 pm
US military chief: Russia unlikely to expand airstrikes to Iraq
Visiting Baghdad, Joseph Dunford says Iraqi officials have not requested Moscow intervention against Islamic State
By Lolita C. Baldor
Emma Sky (second left) tours Doura Market in Baghdad in April, 2007 (Courtesy Curt Cashour)
July 25, 2015, 11:55 pm
Kibbutz experience impacted top UK adviser in Iraq
Faced with the dilemma of whether to protest the American invasion from without or shape it from within, Emma Sky chose the latter
By Elhanan Miller
Illustrative photo of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, August 17, 2014 (AFP/Ahmad al-Rubaye)
August 26, 2014, 4:37 pm
Iran becomes first country to arm Kurds
Leader Barazani holds press conference with Zarif, who vows to send weapons — but not soldiers — to Iraq
By AFP
Smoke rises after a bomb attack in Tuz Khormato, 130 miles (210 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 (photo credit: AP)
August 11, 2013, 2:41 pm
Amid violence, Syria’s Kurds speak up
Iraq suffers a bloody holiday as 16 cars explode across the country on Saturday
By Elhanan Miller
An Egyptian man walks on the grounds of a police officer's club as a fire set by protesters burns in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, March 9, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Ahmed Gomaa)
March 10, 2013, 3:09 pm
Port Said court ruling sets Egypt aflame
Criticism of the Iraqi government mounts from both the Sunnis and the Kurds
By Elhanan Miller
Syrian refugees cross the border with Turkey, March 20 (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)
March 30, 2012, 3:59 pm
Syrian Kurds ‘training in Iraq for the day after Assad’
Kurds break from Syrian opposition after hopes for an autonomous region are dashed
By Elhanan Miller
A man stands next to a bombed vehicle in Kirkuk, Iraq (photo credit: AP/Emad Matti)
March 21, 2012, 12:44 pm
Iraq violence overshadows Syria
Editorials condemn Toulouse massacre and Russia starts to change its position on Syria, but not enough
By Elhanan Miller
Syrian refugees approach the Turkish border Thursday (photo credit: AP/Burhan Ozbilici)
March 16, 2012, 10:40 am
First the violence, now the refugees
Syrians flee; Iran arms Yemeni rebels; and Kurdistan refuses to hand over a deputy President
By Elhanan Miller
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