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Disparate US-Saudi exit-Syria paths set to converge in Baghdad

Apr 1, 2018 @ 9:39 Diane Shalem 14116 Views Crown Prince Muhamed bun Salman, Donald Trump, Iran, Iraq, Syria, US forces

US President Trump’s intended pullout from Syria would dump a heavy burden on the Saudis. The Crown Prince plans to

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New US military moves in the Mid-East & Israel’s Syria air raid were coordinated

Dec 3, 2017 @ 12:25 Diane Shalem 22237 Views Gen. Qassem Soleiman, Iraq, Israel, Middle East policy, Palestinians, Syria, Trump administration, Yemen

The US hands-off to Iran’s top general in Iraq, Ali Abdullah Saleh’s changeover of sides in the Yemen war and

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Kurds win Syrian oil under secret US-Russian deal – prize for Raqqa

Oct 23, 2017 @ 12:47Nov 7, 2017 @ 22:33 Diane Shalem 22505 Views Iraq, Kurds, oil, Syria, US-Russian deal

US-backed Syrian Kurdish militias reported Sunday, Oct. 22, the capture of Syria’s biggest oil field of al-Omar in the eastern

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Iran and Iraq go to war with the Kurds over Kirkuk. Rev Guards take part in defiance of US

Oct 16, 2017 @ 10:51 Diane Shalem 13504 Views Donald Trump, Iran, Iraq, Kirkuk, Kurds, Peshmerga, Qassem Soleimani, US

Baghdad claimed that Iraqi units led the operation launched early Monday against the Kurds over Kirkuk.. DEBKAfile: Pro-Iranian Shiite militias

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Puigdemont is second separatist leader to postpone independence for negotiations

Oct 10, 2017 @ 22:03Oct 11, 2017 @ 8:22 Diane Shalem 7405 Views Catalonia, independence, Iraq, Kurdistan, Spain

Catalan President Carles Puigdemont decided Tuesday, Oct. 10, like Iraq’s Kurdistan leader Masoud Barzani before him, to put his people’s

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Iraq has slim hope of Iranian-Turkish backing against Kurds – even economic warfare

Sep 30, 2017 @ 19:10 Diane Shalem 14754 Views Haydar al-Abadi, Iran, Iraq, KRG, Kurds, Turkey

  Amid all the muscle-flexing and the beating of war drums, Iraq, Turkey and Iraq are thinking twice before going

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Iraqi Kurds vote for independence. Barzani: Our borders lie where our tanks stop

Sep 24, 2017 @ 17:57 Diane Shalem 15460 Views independence, Iran, Iraq, Kurds, oil, Peshmerga, Russia, Turkey

The 5.2 million eligible voters of the semiautonomous Kurdish Republic of Iraq  avow their desire on Monday, Sept. 25 to

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Trump Quits Syria and Iraq, Passes Anti-ISIS War Torch to Russia and Iran

Sep 7, 2017 @ 20:22Sep 18, 2017 @ 18:15 admin 21114 Views Al-Tanf crossing, Bashar Assad, Deir el-Zour, Donald Trump, Iraq, Russia, Syria, US forces in Syria, war on ISIS

Last-Minute Breaking News: Washington is winding up negotiations with Moscow on terms for the withdrawal of US special forces from

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Iraq’s Kurds to Hold Referendum – But Delay Independence

Sep 7, 2017 @ 20:22Sep 18, 2017 @ 18:15 admin 17933 Views Bashar Assad, Erdogan, Iran, Iraq, Irbil, Kurds, Masoud Barzani, Peshmerga, YPG

The Kurdish leaders of northern Iraq (KRG) are determined willy-nilly to hold their independence referendum on Sept. 25 despite universal

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Two Major Battles open Syrian Borders to Iranian Control

Aug 24, 2017 @ 19:07Sep 18, 2017 @ 18:23 admin 20711 Views Donald Trump, Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, Gen. James Mattis, Haidar al-Abadi, Hizballah, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Lebanon, Syrian-Iraqi border, Tal Afar

By taking the lead on two hot anti-ISIS battlefronts, Iran is rapidly deepening its foothold in the Middle East and

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