(Reuters) - A ban on international flights into Iraq’s Kurdish region was being imposed on Friday after the Baghdad government retaliated against a vote for independence that has drawn opposition from foreign powers. Iraq’s Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in a referendum on...

Iraqi forces Friday launched an assault on the northern town of Hawijah, one of the last bastions still held by Daesh (ISIS) in the country, its commander said. "A huge military operation has begun to liberate Hawijah and its surrounding areas," Lt. Gen. Abdel Amir Yarallah said in a...

Turkey said on Thursday it had stopped training peshmerga forces in northern Iraq in response to a Kurdish independence vote there, whose backers had thrown themselves “into the fire”. The Kurdish peshmerga have been at the forefront of the campaign against Islamic State and been...

(Reuters) - Interpol voted on Wednesday to admit the State of Palestine as a member over Israeli objections at the international police organization’s general assembly in Beijing. The decision came despite Israeli efforts to delay a vote and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a...