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Iraqi forces close in on Tigris river in Mosul

Iraqi forces closed in on the river that runs through central Mosul on Saturday in advances against ISIS that have gathered pace thanks to new tactics and better coordination, a counterterrorism spokesman said. Advances in recent days, including Saturday's push to within several hundred...

Turkish PM visits Iraq amid spat over unauthorized troops

Iraq's state TV says the Turkish Prime Minister has arrived in Baghdad in his first visit since the two governments quarreled over the presence of unauthorized Turkish troops in northern Iraq. The Saturday report didn't give details on the schedule of Binali Yildirim's two-day visit. On his...

Turkey to naturalize Syrian, Iraqi migrants

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday announced that some of the millions of Syrian and Iraqis who have fled to Turkey would be given Turkish nationality. "Our interior ministry is carrying out work, and under this work, some of them will be granted our nationality after all the necessary...