Al-Monitor - Iraq summoned the ambassadors from Iran and Turkey on Thursday due to their ongoing military actions against Kurdish groups in the country. Iraq demanded in a statement Turkey stop its military actions against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Iraq. Iraq also sent a statement to Iran protesting its attacks on Kurdish groups within ...

IRNA Iraqi Kurds have been engaging in trade exchanges with Iran despite all the US pressures, Iranian consul general in Slemani, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan region, said on Saturday. That the Iraqi Kurd businesspersons are interested in Iranian commodities proves that the US has suffered defeat in its anti-Iran measures, Sadollah Massoudian told ...

MNA A security official at provisional governor office of western province of Kurdistan has said that Iran will close all the provinces border crossings with KRG as the Iraqi Kurds go to polls tomorrow. The director general of security affairs at the provisional governor office of Kurdistan province in western Iran has said that all the ...

IFP - The number of Iraqi tourists visiting Iran has multiplied in recent months following a drop in the value of the Iranian national currency. Irans consul general in Sulaymaniyah says the number of visas issued to Iraqi Kurds rose four-fold in the one month to August 22, 2018, i.e., 2,800 visas per day. There are also reports that at ...

MNA The depreciation of Iranian national currency 'the rial' has significantly decreased the cost of travel to Iran for Iraqi Kurds, boosting tourism in the country. Shared border crossings with Iraqi Kurdistan have been witnessing a significant increase in the number of Iraqi Kurds whovisit Iran as the cost of travel for them has reduced ...

Al-Monitor | Fazel Hawramy: Iraqi Kurds are opening a new chapter in their relations with Iran, seven months after Tehran sided with Baghdad in crushing their ambition for independence following a 2017 referendum in which nearly 93% of Kurds opted to secede from Iraq. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) hosted an Iranian government trade delegation ...

Al-Monitor | Fazel Hawramy: Iraqi Kurds have given reassurances to Tehran that they will not allow Kurdish opposition groups to launch cross-border attacks from Iraqi Kurdistan, a major development in the warming up of relations between Erbil and Tehran. This comes as tiesreached a breaking point following the controversial Sept. 25independence referendumin ...

FNA- Representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Tehran Nazim Dabagh announced that the Kurdish leaders are now ready to resolve the problems created after the independence referendum through talks, lauding efforts made by Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani ...

Press TV- Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri has warned that any change in the political geography of the region would create tensions across the Middle East. Any geographical change in the region, given the differences among the Kurds and the central Iraqi government about [the country's northern province ...

A senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has warned of plots hatched by the US and its regional allies to divide the Middle East countries, saying such a move aims to safeguard the Israeli regimes security. The Americans and some of their regional allies are trying to sow discord and break up the region ...

Alwaght- US public and secret support of Syrian and Iraqi Kurds, rose the questions that why Washington is leaning towards such policies? And how these policies can affect the West Asian region? By playing the Kurds Card, US manages to continue approaching its goals against regional countries like Syria, Iraq, Turkey, and even Iran. Despite various ...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces and volunteer fighters with the Popular Mobilization force have agreed to pull out from a northern Iraqi town that has been the scene of sporadic clashes over the past week. Under the deal, local police forces will be taking control of the town of Tuz Khurmatu in Salahuddin Province, which is home to Kurds, Shia Turkmen ...

By Ali Hassan Heidari (Part 1): TEHRAN, March 10, TheIran Project - The Islamic Republic of Irans support for Kurds traces its roots in historical and ethnic unity of the Kurdish race as an inseparable part of Iranian identity and that this support is not at all temporary and based on political expediency. The Kurds current situation in the region ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Irans second consignment of humanitarian aid has been delivered to the people of Iraqs semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, an official with the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said. Hassan Esfandiar, deputy director of the IRCSs International Relations Department, said the consignment weighs 260 tons and consists of food, ...

[caption id="attachment_114492" align="alignright" width="276"] Germany Chancellor Merkel, second left, and German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen, center, talking with other ministers prior to a special session of the Bundestag, Sept. 1, 2014. Photo by AFP[/caption] Germany to send Iraqi Kurds enough weapons for 4,000 fighters against the Islamic ...

[caption id="attachment_113212" align="alignright" width="202"] Kurdish Peshmerga forces position themselves on a road to monitor security and movements around Kirkuk on August 24, 2014.[/caption] Irans interior minister says the Islamic Republic recently helped Kurdish fighters in Iraq in their battle against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists in the Kurdistan ...

Iran has advised Iraq in its fight against ISIL Takfiri terrorists and has provided the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region with similar help, says a senior Iranian official. Tehran has not sent any weapons or dispatched any troops to the neighboring country for this purpose, said Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-...

[caption id="attachment_110847" align="alignright" width="284"] U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets take off for mission in Iraq from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush, in the Persian Gulf, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. U.S. military officials said American fighter aircraft struck and destroyed several vehicles Sunday that were part ...

[caption id="attachment_89651" align="alignright" width="180"] The consequences of the attack are still being felt[/caption] Kurds in northern Iraq have been commemorating the 25th anniversary of the chemical weapons attack on the town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces. Clutching photos of dead relatives, mourners observed a minute's silence ...