TEHRAN, October 22 - Iranian parliamentary official Amir-Abdollahian labelled Iran and Iraq’s relations as strong and stable, while criticizing Saudi Arabia’s destructive and uncooperative behavior.
TEHRAN, October 22 - US-backed forces fighting ISIS in Raqqa announced this week that "major military operations" in the city have ended and that the terrorist group has lost control of its self-declared capital.
TEHRAN, October 21 - Iraq said it was increasing oil exports on Saturday from the southern Basra region by 200,000 barrels per day to make up for a shortfall from the northern Kirkuk fields.
TEHRAN, October 19 - An Iraqi court issued an arrest warrant for the vice president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), accusing him of provocation against the Arab country’s armed forces, which managed to take over Kirkuk province earlier this week.
TEHRAN, October 18 - Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has decided to postpone the presidential and legislative elections in the northern semi-autonomous region amid spiraling tensions with the Baghdad government in the wake of last month’s Kurdish independence referendum and a dire ‘threat of civil war’ there.
TEHRAN, October 18 - Iran’s defense minister reiterated that the country would press ahead with taking the necessary steps for peace and stability in the region, including in neighboring Iraq.
TEHRAN, October 17 - Iraqi government forces have established security over the northern city of Kirkuk after retaking contested territory from Kurdish militants.
TEHRAN, October 16 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered the hoisting of Iraqi national flag in the country’s oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk as well as other areas under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
TEHRAN, October 16 - Iraqi government forces took control of “vast areas” in the region of Kirkuk, including oilfields west of the city, in the early hours of Monday, Iraqi state TV said.
TEHRAN, October 15 - An independent humanitarian organization said hundreds of thousands of people are still displaced from Iraq’s strategic northern city of Mosul, which served as Daesh terror group’s last urban bastion and its de facto capital in the Arab country, months after government forces and their allied fighters liberated it from the clutches of the extremists.
TEHRAN, October 15 - Kurdish troops in Iraq have rejected a call from governmental forces to withdraw from a strategic location in Kirkuk’s southern region.
TEHRAN, October 13 - Iraqi troops launched operations on Friday to retake Kurdish-held positions in the disputed oil province of Kirkuk as tensions soar after an independence vote last month.
TEHRAN, October 12 -Kurdish Peshmerga forces blocked roads from Iraqi Kurdistan to the country's second city Mosul for several hours in response to Iraqi troop movements, a senior Kurdish military official said.
TEHRAN, October 11 - A top Iraqi court has issued arrest warrants for the elections and referendum commission chairman of the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and his two aides over the controversial September 25 referendum on Kurdish independence from the rest of the Iraqi territory.
TEHRAN, October 9 - Iraq’s central government has launched a probe into the the hefty oil revenues of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
TEHRAN, October 9 - The Iraqi government has decided to impose control over mobile phone operators in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and to relocate their headquarters to Baghdad as part of punitive measures taken in response to last month’s secession referendum in the region.