Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has renewed his call onTurkey to withdraw its troops from northern Iraq, saying he hopedAnkara wouldhelp Baghdad fightTakfiri Daesh terrorists. I appeal to the Turkish government to help us, and withdraw their forces, Abadi said Fridayon the sidelines of theWorld Economic Forum in the Swiss town of Davos....

The Turkish military says itswarplanes have carried out airstrikes against militants from the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), destroying their compounds in northern Iraq. The military said six fighter jets, accompanied by drones, destroyedmilitant compounds, depots and shelters inside Iraq. Turkeys airstrikes insidethe Iraqi territory have repeatedly ...

Iraq has rejected Turkeys claims that its forces "illegally" deployed to the Arab country had come underattack by Takfiri Daesh terrorists. "The joint operations command denies there was a terrorist attack on the position of Turkish forces in Bashiqa by the terrorist Daesh recently," Iraq'sstate television said, referring to a military base near ...

The Iraqi prime minister says Ankara shows no respect to an agreement on pulling back its troops from the countrys north, accusing the Turkish forces of causing lots of tension in the region. In a phone conversation with Turkish Premier Ahmet Davutoglu on Wednesday, Haider al-Abadi also reiterated his stance on the territorial integrity of his country ...

(CNN)Turkey announced Saturday it would move its troops from Iraq after weeks of tensions over its military presence near the city of Mosul, according to a statement from the country's Foreign Ministry. The Turkish government didn't say where the troops would move to. It had said troops were deployed to the Bashiqa military base in northern Iraq ...

In early December Turkey unilaterally invaded Iraq and occupied Mosul; geopolitical analyst Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya suggests that by seizing Mosul Ankara is trying to protect its illicit oil trade. Just a few weeks after shooting down the Russian Su-24 bomber in the skies of Syria, Ankara sent a battalion of twenty-five M-60 Patton tanks to the ...

The United States has significantly ratcheted up pressure on the Turkish government to withdraw recently dispatched troops out of Iraq, with President Barack Obama reaching out to his Turkish counterpart to resolve a row between the two US allies. The White House said on Friday that Obama phoned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an as part of ...

Tehran, Dec 11, IRNA Iraq's top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, called on the government on Friday to show 'no tolerance' of any infringement of the country's sovereignty, after Turkey deployed heavily armed troops to northern Iraq. Ayatollah Sistani's Spokesman, Sheikh Abdul Mehdi Karbala'i, did not explicitly name Turkey, but a row over ...