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Many commentators have suggested that with Kirkuk in hand, the KRG could declare independence. Some even went so far as to argue that the disintegration of Iraq at the hands of ISIS would benefit ...
Residents of Iraq's Kurdish region cast their votes today in a controversial independence referendum seen as a way to signal the ethnic minority's desire for self-determination, despite strong ...
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki proclaimed that day a holiday and declared it to be Iraq's "Independence Day." You can debate the merits of whether we should have gone to war against Iraq.
The Iraqi Prime Minister reaffirmed Iraq's continued support for the Lebanese people as well as Lebanon's internal political ...
Iraq’s Kurdish provinces plan to vote in a referendum on independence on Sept. 25, a poll that regional and Western powers, not to mention the central government in Baghdad, have decried as a ...
Iraq’s ethnic Kurds voted an emphatic “yes” in a pivotal independence referendum for their autonomous region in the north, officials said, sending shockwaves across the region. The Kurds, who ...
When there was a non-binding referendum in the Kurdish region of Iraq in 2017, 93% voted for freedom and independence. The result? Baghdad, increasingly an Iranian satellite, unleashed a punishing ...
The recognition of Iraq’s independence is made subject, however, to certain conditions in respect of the protection of the minorities living in Iraq, and the report of the Mandates Commission ...
Hossein Pirmoazzen, Deputy Head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, emphasized that Iraq remains one of Iran’s largest economic ...