FNA - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) in a statement confirmed the Saturday missile strikes against the headquarters of Kurdistan Democratic Party Iran (KDP-I) terrorist group in the Iraqi Kurdistan region, vowing harsher response if terrorist attacks continue. The statement said on Sunday that the missile strikes were launched after ...

Alwaght - Kurdish militias, Peshmerga, have helped ISIS terrorists and their families escape the town of Hawijah prior to its liberation by the Iraqi military earlier this month, an Iraqi commander told. Mahdi Taki, a commander with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMU), also known by its Arabic name Hashd al-Shaabi, told the Middle East Eye (MEE) ...

Press TV- Iraqi army commanders say Kurdish Peshmerga forceshave helped members of the Daesh Takfiri militant group and their families escape the town of Hawijah prior to its liberation by the Iraqi military earlier this month. Mahdi Taki, a commander with the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), also known by its Arabic name Hashd al-Shaabi,told ...

Press TV - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lobbying world powers to support the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region from the rest of the Iraqi territory, as Kurdish Peshmerga forces are losing ground to Iraqi army forces in the countrys oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk. Israeli officials, requesting anonymity,...

Press TV- A senior Iraqi military commander says Kurdish Peshmerga forces have pulled backed to the positions they held in June 2014, before the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group swept through the Arab country. The commander told Reuters on Wednesday that the withdrawal came after the Kurds handed over their positions in the northwestern Nineveh ...

IRNA Iraqi forces captured Lilan region, Baba Gurgur oil wells, and the headquarters of the North Oil Company (NOC), northwest of Kirkuk. Iraq's army said in a statement that they have gained control of K1 airbase, N Kirkuk, too. The statement also demanded that all state employees, especially security forces, such as police forces, go back ...

Press TV - Iraqi forces say they have taken control of vast areas of Kirkuk following clashes with Kurdish Peshmerga forces who had occupied the oil-rich region. The move was announced via Iraqi state TV early on Monday, shortly after reports of government forces advancing towards strategic locations such as airfields and airbases located to ...

Iran Front Page- IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, October 15, and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Newspapers on Sunday continued highlighting the anti-Iran allegations raised by US President Donald Trump and the widespread ...

Press TV- Kurdish troops in Iraq have rejected a call from governmental forces to withdraw from a strategic location in Kirkuks southern region. Early on Sunday, a Kurdish security official announced that Peshmerga fighters have not withdrawn from a key junction south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. The announcement came after a senior Iraqi ...

Press TV- A senior Iraqi Kurdish official says the Baghdad government has set a deadline for Kurdish forces to withdraw from positions in the oil-rich northern Kirkuk Province, which have been under their control over their past three years. The deadline set for the Peshmerga to return to their pre-June 6, 2014 positions will expire during the ...

Press TV- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has denied an attack plan against the positions of Kurdish Peshmerga forces amid ongoing tensions between the central government in Baghdad and authorities of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. We are not going to use our army to fight our people or to make war on our Kurdish citizens or others, Abadi ...

Press TV- At least sixIraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces have reportedly been killed as Turkey resumes air raids on Kurdish positions in northern Iraq and in northeastern Syria. Kurdish sources said theywere killed by mistake in a Turkish strike on a position held by the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants on the Sinjar Mountain in northern Iraq....

Press TV- Iraqi Kurdish fighters have entered the center of the Daesh-held town of Bashiqa, which is located east of the city of Mosul, from four axes. Ghiath el-Srouji, a security official from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), said the Peshmerga fighters entered the center of Bashiqa on Monday morning. He told Iraqs al-Sumaria news ...

Alwaght- The Iraqi forces started on Monday the long-awaited military operation to retake Mosul, the second-largest city of Iraq, from ISIS terrorist group that more than two years ago in a sweeping assault wrested control of the city from the Iraqi security forces. It took almost a long time before the government made the final preparations for beginning ...

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces have secured a strategic river crossing point, allowing them to open a new front against Daesh and further tighten the noose around terrorists holed up in Mosul. On Monday, the Kurdish forces reached Kanhash on the western side of the Gwer bridge which spans the Grand Zab riverand the southeast of Mosul. [caption ...

The Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have reportedly launched operations to tighten the noose around the Takfiri Daesh terrorists in their stronghold of Mosul, as part of larger-scale attempts to fully liberate the northern Iraqi city. On Wednesday, the Iraqi government forces and their allies started a planned and multi-pronged offensive ...

Alwaght- Following the exit of the US forces from Iraq after 2011, Washingtons position suffered a sharp decline not only in Iraq but also in the whole region of West Asia. Rise of the terror group ISIS in the region in 2014 more than ever put on show the US weakness. The US President Barack Obamas doctrine in the region was based on setting in ...

Kurdish sources say Daesh militants used chemical weapons in a recent attack against Peshmerga forces in a village in northern Iraq. The sources said on Monday that the Takfiriextremists launched several mortar rounds containing chlorine gas at the village of Bashir some 20 km(12 miles) south of Kirkukthe previous night, a newspaperreported....

Kurdish Peshmerga forces and volunteer fighters with the Popular Mobilization force have agreed to pull out from a northern Iraqi town that has been the scene of sporadic clashes over the past week. Under the deal, local police forces will be taking control of the town of Tuz Khurmatu in Salahuddin Province, which is home to Kurds, Shia Turkmen ...

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the enemy has failed in its attempts to create ethnic and religious discord in theKurdistan region. The remarks were part of the Leader's written statements read out at acongress commemorating Muslim Kurdish Peshmerga martyrs which was heldMondayin the city of Sanandaj, the capital ...