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Iraq Builds up Forces near Kurdish Oil Export Pipeline
2017-10-24
Iraqi forces are deploying tanks and artillery near a Kurdish-held area of northern Iraq where a section of a Kurdish oil export pipeline is located, as well as land crossings to Turkey and Syria, security sources said on Monday.
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Iraqi Forces Complete Kirkuk Province Takeover after Clashes with Kurds
2017-10-23
Iraqi forces on Friday took control of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk still in the hands of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters following a three-hour battle, security sources said.
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Iraqi Forces Complete Kirkuk Province Takeover after Clashes with Kurds
2017-10-21
Iraqi forces on Friday took control of the last district in the oil-rich province of Kirkuk still in the hands of Kurdish Peshmerga fighters following a three-hour battle, security sources said.
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Iranian Commander Issued Stark Warning to Iraqi Kurds over Kirkuk
2017-10-21
A senior Iranian military commander repeatedly warned Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq to withdraw from the oil city of Kirkuk or face an onslaught by Iraqi forces and allied Iranian-backed fighters, Kurdish officials briefed on the meetings said.
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US Urges Iraq to Avoid Clashes with Kurds near Kirkuk
2017-10-21
The U.S. State Department on Friday urged the Baghdad government to avoid clashes in northern Iraq by limiting the movement of federal troops in disputed areas to those coordinated with the Kurdistan Regional Government.
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Iraqi Court Issues Arrest Warrant for Kurdish Vice President
2017-10-20
A Baghdad court issued an arrest warrant for the vice president of Iraq's autonomous northern Kurdish region on Thursday for saying that Iraqi forces had "occupied" the disputed province of Kirkuk this week.
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Trump: US “Not Taking Sides” in Iraqi-Kurdish Dispute
2017-10-17
The United States sought on Monday to avoid openly taking sides in an Iraqi-Kurdish dispute, as Iraq’s capture of the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk raised the risk of an open conflict between U.S. allies in the fight against Islamic State.
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Iraqi-Backed Yazidi Group Takes over Sinjar after Kurdish Pullout
2017-10-17
An Iraqi Yazidi group affiliated with a Shi‘ite-led armed faction took control on Tuesday of Sinjar, said residents of the northwestern city that is claimed by both Kurdish and central Iraqi authorities.
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Goldman Sees Iran Tensions Posing Long-Term Threat to Global Oil Supply
2017-10-17
Goldman Sachs said that while oil output from the Kurdistan region was potentially at risk due to a standoff with Iraq, tensions between the United States and Iran remained a larger and longer term threat to global supply.
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Iraq Says Iran has Shut Border with Kurdistan
2017-10-16
Iran on Sunday shut its border crossings with Iraq’s Kurdistan in support of measures taken by the Iraqi government to isolate the Kurdish region, the Iraqi foreign ministry said.
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Iraqi Government wants Kurdistan-Based Mobile Phone Networks Under its Control
2017-10-09
The Iraqi government said on Monday it would seek to impose control over Kurdistan-based mobile phone operators and move their headquarters to the capital
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Iraqi PM Urges "Joint Administration" of Kirkuk under Baghdad's Authority
2017-10-04
Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday called for a "joint administration" of Kirkuk and other areas claimed by both his government and the autonomous Kurdish region, provided that Baghdad has ultimate authority in such an arrangement.
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Iraq's Kurdistan Region Plans Presidential, Parliamentary Votes on Nov. 1
2017-10-03
raq's autonomous Kurdistan region plans to hold presidential and parliamentary elections on Nov. 1, the Erbil-based Rudaw TV said on Tuesday, as the Kurdish leadership cements its case for independence.
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Iran Sends Tanks to Border with Iraq's Kurdish Region, Kurdish Official Says
2017-10-03
Iran deployed a dozen tanks supported by artillery at its border with Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Monday, a Kurdish official said, adding that the move was a dangerous escalation in the crisis triggered by Iraqi Kurdistan’s independence vote.
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Iraq Plans to Take Control of Kurdistan Region's Border 'in Coordination' with Iran, Turkey
2017-09-30
Iraq plans to take control of the borders of its autonomous Kurdistan region "in coordination" with Iran and Turkey, the Iraqi Defence Ministry said on Friday.
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Iraq's Top Shi'ite Ceric Sistani Opposes Secession of Kurdish Region
2017-09-30
Iraq's top Shi‘ite cleric opposes the secession of the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, his representative said in a Friday sermon on his behalf, in the religious leader's first comments on the Kurds' decision to back independence in a referendum.
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U.N. Offers to Help Resolve Baghdad, Kurdistan Region Crisis: Iraq Foreign Ministry
2017-09-29
The United Nations has offered to help "solve the problem" between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) over a Kurdish independence referendum held on Monday, the Iraqi foreign ministry said on Thursday.
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Iraqi Kurds Offer Talks on Hosting Baghdad Observers at its Airports -Rudaw TV
2017-09-29
The Kurdistan Regional Government has offered to hold talks with Iraq's central government about hosting Iraqi observers at KRG airports to help defuse a crisis triggered by a Kurdish independence vote, Kurdish Rudaw TV said Wednesday.
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Baghdad Piles Pressure on Iraqi Kurds to Reverse Overwhelming Independence Vote
2017-09-29
Baghdad heaped pressure on Iraq's Kurds on Wednesday, demanding they cancel their overwhelming vote for independence while parliament urged the Iraqi central government to send troops to take control of vital oil fields held by Kurdish forces.
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Curfew Declared in Kirkuk as Kurds Celebrate Independence Vote
2017-09-26
Authorities in Kirkuk declared a curfew an hour and a half before polls closed in a Kurdish independence referendum on Monday as jubilant Kurds celebrated a vote that has raised fears of a new outburst of ethnic conflict.