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An undisclosed Chinese company will launch in the Iraqi Kurdish capital Erbil a $5-billion tourism project expected to create over 8,000 job opportunities, a local official has told media, Zawya reports. Director of Erbil Board of Investment Saman Arab told Read more
Unidentified gunmen killed Monday in his car a senior officer of the Iraqi intelligence services, second such incident this year. Col. Nebras Farman was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen on his car in the Shia-dominated eastern district of Read more
A court in Turkey has sentenced a former Kurdish member of the parliament accused of supporting the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to 22 years in prison. Leyla Guven, of the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) was stripped of her Read more
US President Donald Trump has is not thrilled about Kurds Syrian allies YPG after it transpired that the militia group has been selling oil U.S. Middle East rival Iran which has been under US sanctions. “The Kurds, our partners, are Read more
The White House Monday said President Donald Trump is open for a future meeting with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan who extended him an invitation to visit Ankara as ties between the two NATO allies warm again following few Read more
The US has urged Iraqi authorities to put an end to the country’s dependence on Iran for energy as the White House seeks to replace Iranian suppliers with American companies, The New Arab reports. “The time has come for Iraq Read more
The US has installed a number of observation posts overlooking the Turkish border in Kurdish-controlled parts of northern Syria, in a move that has antagonized Washington’s Nato ally, as it prepares for an offensive on its southern border. “The observation Read more
France is not planning military engagement in Northern Syria on the side of rebels and Kurdish forces labeled by Ankara as terrorists, a source from the French presidency told Turkish Daily Sabah. The source who did not want to be Read more
Turkey has reiterated threats to extend its incursion in Syria to the town of Manbij, taking its forces to the edge of the US-backed Kurdish presence in the country’s north-east and raising the specter of a military standoff with Washington. Read more
No blitzkrieg for the Turkish army in Afrin. This is the conclusion of the first week since the launch of the “Olive Branche” operation to crash the Kurdish-majority SDF forces in the border area in northwestern Syria. The SDF- composed Read more