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An image from a propaganda video by Al-Furqan Media allegedly shows the leader of the ISIS Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on July 5, 2014 (AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA)

Splits emerging within ISIS in Iraq: sources

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...

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Masrour Barzani, head of the Kurdish region’s National Security Council, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Erbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, July 19, 2014. (Reuters)

Peshmerga morale is “high” in fight against ISIS: Kurdish security official

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...

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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take position on the front line in Khazer, near the Kurdish checkpoint of Aski Kalak, 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on August 8, 2014. (AFP/Safin Hamed)

ISIS no threat to Erbil: Peshmerga official

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...

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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani speaks during a press conference in Ankara in this March 7, 2008, file photo. (AFP PHOTO/ADEM ALTAN)

Iraq: Kirkuk governor says President Talabani to return soon

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...

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Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani (C) gives a press conference with Diyarbakir’s Mayor Osman Baydemir (3rd-R), Turkish deputy Leyla Zana (2nd-L) on November 17, 2013, in Diyarbakir. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the leader of Iraq’s autonomous north Massud Barzani to his country’s own Kurdish-dominated territory for the first time on November 16, in a visit designed to kickstart a stalled peace process. AFP PHOTO /MEHMET ENGIN

Syrian Kurds fail to agree on Geneva II

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...