by Dalshad Abdullah | Feb 27, 2015 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Cracks are appearing within the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) amid reports of divisions and confrontation between foreign fighters and local tribesmen in the Iraqi provinces of Nineveh, Salah Al-Din and Anbar. The divisions have emerged...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Nov 6, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Kurdish Peshmerga forces continue to advance and recapture territory held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the north of the country, Chancellor of the Kurdistan Region Security Council Masrour Barzani told Asharq Al-Awsat. “The...
by Dalshad Abdullah | Sep 18, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters currently pose no threat to the Kurdish capital Erbil, as Peshmerga forces continue to drive Islamist fighters out of Iraq’s semi-autonomous region, a Peshmerga official said. Speaking to Asharq...
by Mohamed Zangeneh | Apr 22, 2014 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The governor of Kirkuk announced on Monday that Iraq’s president, Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani, would return to Iraqi Kurdistan soon, after spending two years in hospital in Germany. Najmiddin Karim, a member of Talabani’s party, the Patriotic...
by Mohamed Zangeneh | Dec 20, 2013 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Negotiations between Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani and delegations from the Kurdish National Council (KNC) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have failed to reach agreement on a formula for attending the...
