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A member of the Saudi border guards force stands guard next to a fence on Saudi Arabia’s northern borderline with Iraq, in this July 14, 2014 file photo. (Reuters/Faisal Nasser/Files)

Opinion: ISIS bringing enemies together

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Aug 17, 2014 | Opinion

We are witnessing a unique situation in which different countries, parties and tribes now have no choice but to take a position against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). ISIS is the reason behind a strange gathering of opponents. Most of the Iraqi...

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Displaced Yazidis find shelter in a half-finished building in Dohuk, Iraqi Kurdistan, on August 14, 2014. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

ISIS “massacres” 80 Yazidis in north Iraq: officials

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 16, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad, Reuters—Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) “massacred” some 80 members of Iraq’s Yazidi minority in a village in the country’s north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said on Friday. “They...

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A Kurdish peshmerga fighter stands guard as new equipment arrives at Kalak refinery on the outskirts of Erbil, Iraq, on Monday, July 14, 2014. (AP Photo)

Abu Dhabi’s TAQA suspends activity in Kurdistan block due to instability: statement

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 9, 2014 | Business

Dubai, Reuters—Abu Dhabi National Energy Co (TAQA), the state-owned oil explorer and power supplier, has suspended its activity at the Atrush Block in Kurdistan due to the instability in the region, a company statement said on Saturday. “As a result of recent...

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Iraqi Christians who fled the violence in the village of Qaraqosh rest upon their arrival at the Saint-Joseph church in the Kurdish city of Erbil, in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, on August 7, 2014. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

US starts aid airdrops in Iraq but no strikes yet

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 8, 2014 | Middle East

Baghdad/Washington, Reuters—The United States began to drop relief supplies to beleaguered Yazidi refugees fleeing Islamist militants in Iraq, but there was no immediate sign on Friday of US air strikes to halt the sweeping advance of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria...

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President of the Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani speaks during a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary William Hague (unseen) in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan, on June 27, 2014. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)

Opinion: Barzani Flying a Kite

by Amir Taheri | Jul 11, 2014 | Opinion

What do you do when you have walked your cat the wrong way? The reasonable answer is that you walk it right back. This is what Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani should do regarding his talk of a referendum on independence for Iraqi Kurds. Unless...