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Iraqi forces takeover Kirkuk province
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct.20 (ANI): Iraqi armed forces on Friday took control of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk.
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Iraqi army launches operation in Kirkuk
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Erbil [Iraq], Oct 16 (ANI): The Iraqi security forces have begun operations to take over military bases and oil wells from Peshmerga of the oil-rich Kurdish city, asserted the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKBY) Security Agency.
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Iraq forces recapture Hawija from ISIS
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 5 (ANI): The Iraqi Army on Thursday announced the capture of the town of Hawija and surrounding areas from the Islamic State.
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Iraqi Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani dies
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 3 (ANI): Jalal Talabani,the Kurdish leader and the first president of Iraq under its postwar Constitution, has passed away in hospital in Berlin, Germany, at the age of 83.
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Israel denies involvement in Iraqi Kurdistan referendum
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], October 2 (ANI): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuffed the claims by the Turkish Government of Israeli involvement in the Kurdish referendum in Iraq.
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Turkish jets hit Kurdistan Workers' Party arms dumps in Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], Oct 1 (ANI): The Turkish military on Saturday conducted airstrikes on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) bases in northern Iraq and destroyed arms depots and shelters.
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Kurdish referendum conspiracy of US-Israel to divide Middle East: Sayyed H
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Beirut [Lebanon], Oct1 (ANI): Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned that the recent Kurdish independence referendum is a conspiracy of Israel and its ally U.S. to "open the door of partition" in the Middle East.
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Erbil urges Baghdad, U.N. to lift air embargo
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], October 1 (ANI): Northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has called on the United Nations and the federal government in Baghdad to lift an air embargo imposed on the region following this week's controversial independence referendum.
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Flight ban imposed on Kurdistan by Iraq goes into effect
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Baghdad [Iraq], September 30 (ANI): In reaction to the unilateral vote on independence held on Monday, a flight ban on Iraq's Kurdistan, imposed by the government in Baghdad, has gone into effect at the autonomous region's airports.
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Turkish forces kill nine PKK terrorists in counter-terror operations
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], September 30 (ANI): At least nine terrorists of the Kurdistan Workers' Party or the PKK have been killed during counter-terror operations in Turkey and northern Iraq.
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Turkish air force kills 13 in north Iraq air strike
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], September 28 (ANI): Turkish jets killed 13 suspected Kurdish PKK fighters even they struck a target in northern Iraq on Wednesday, the armed forces said in a statement.
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Kurds vote in favour of independence from Iraq
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Irbil [Iraq], September 28 (ANI): Iraqi Kurds have voted overwhelmingly in favour of declaring independence from Iraq in a historic referendum.
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