Israel played role in Iraq’s Kurdish referendum: Turkish president
madaresharghi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Israel’s Mossad spy agency has played a role in the recent Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq. During a televised speech in the ...
Iran’s top Sunni cleric backs Iraq’s integrity, unity
madaresharghi “The territorial integrity and independence of Muslim countries are vital and important,” Abdul Hamid said in an address to Sunni worshipers during the weekly Friday Prayers in the southeastern ...
Kurdistan refuses to relinquish border crossings to Iraq amid referendum tensions
madaresharghi Iraq's Kurdish-language Rudaw television network, which is affiliated to the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) led by KRG president Massoud Barzani, reported that the local government had taken the measure in defiance of an earlier ...
Putin: Conditions to end Syria war in place
madaresharghi Vladimir Putin has termed the progress in the peaceful solution of the Syrian crisis ‘a joint success’ between Moscow and Ankara after talks with the Turkish leader. He said ...
Iraqi forces retake nearly dozen villages in new push to free Hawijah
madaresharghi The commander of the Hawijah liberation operation, Lieutenant General Abdul AmirYarallah, said on Friday that army troops, soldiers from the Federal Police Force and Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) the Interior Ministry's elite ...
UN General Assembly president, Zarif talk on Middle East
madaresharghi President of the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly Miroslav Lajcak has recently tweeted that he and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting on the ...
Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Sistani opposes Kurdistan’s secession
madaresharghi Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has voiced opposition to the secession of the northern Kurdistan region from the mainland, warning against the negative repercussions of such ...
Baghdadi urges followers to wage attacks against the West, Iraq, Syria
madaresharghi Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi has exhorted followers across the world to wage attacks against the West and to keep fighting in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere. The message released ...
Iran urges strong support for Baghdad
madaresharghi Iran's First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said Thursday that Tehran remains to be against any attempts threatening Iraq's territorial integrity. 'We should strongly support Baghdad in managing the situation,' ...
Syria writes to UN again to urge end to US 'war crimes'
madaresharghi In two letters addressed to the UN chief and the Security Council chairman, the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry has denounced repeated US attacks on civilians and the country's ...