by Asharq Al-Awsat and Heba El Koudsy | Oct 20, 2017 | Middle East
Riyadh, Baghdad, Washington – The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud made on Thursday a telephone call to Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, during which they reviewed bilateral relations between both countries in various...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | Oct 11, 2017 | Opinion
It was really significant that the coffin of Jalal Talebani, the ex-Iraqi president, was wrapped by the national flag of Kurdistan rather the flag of Iraq, during his funeral in his hometown As-Suleimanyyah. What we are now witnessing is a virtual ‘divorce’ between...
by Saeed Abdel Razek and Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 25, 2017 | Middle East
Ankara, Baghdad, Irbil, London- While residents of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq began showing up on Monday at polling stations to cast their votes in the referendum on independence, a geographic dragnet is expected to be tightened around the region. President of...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2017 | Middle East
Irbil, Baghdad, Ankara- The Kurdistan Region of Iraq closed on Saturday the door in the face of regional and international parties calling for the postponement of the referendum on independence and asserted it would proceed with the vote as scheduled on Monday. As...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 16, 2017 | Middle East
A car bomb killed one person and injured ten in Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil city where local Kurdish authorities plan to hold a referendum on independence despite opposition from the central government and the region’s non-Kurdish population. According to Reuters, the...
