The Kurdish people have a right to self-determination and statehood, but this will not be accomplished through violence, Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani said.
Al-Qaeda in Syria is fighting to drive rivals out of areas bordering Turkey and Iraq in a bid to control territory stretching from Iraq into northern Syria, various sources say.
Alexei Pushkov, the head of the State Duma committee on international affairs, believes US President Barack Obama should clearly state his position on the issue of Syria.
Tehran, YJC. International affairs consultant of the Majlis Speaker has said that Larijani’s Turk and Iraqi counterparts will visit Iran in the near future.
Tehran, YJC. -- Militants attacked a police station in north Iraq on Wednesday with mortar rounds and automatic weapons, killing nine police, an officer and a doctor said.
Tehran, YJC. -- The recent Kongre-Gel assembly made it clear once more that the PKK has not deviated from its original goals. While making changes to the Union of Kurdish Communities’ (KCK) upper levels, the assembly did not solely make decisions regarding Turkey.
TEHRAN, YJC. -- Baghdad has warned Israel that it would respond to any attempts by the Jewish state to use Iraqi airspace for a strike against Iran's controversial nuclear programe, a top Iraqi minister told AFP.
TEHRAN, YJC. - Iranian Intelligence Minister Heidar Moslehi has called for the immediate expulsion of Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO) terrorists from Iraq.
TEHRAN, YJC.-- A former member of the British domestic spy agency, MI5, says Iraq “has been wrecked by the western intervention”, stressing the claims of taking democracy to Iraq were “flagrant hypocrisy” from the very onset.
TEHRAN, YJC. Political consultant to Seyyed Ammar Hakim, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Speaker, has said that they would not let dictatorship and the Baath party back in power.