2021/02/21 08:38
US President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn upon return to the White House in Washington, DC, Feb. 19, 2021. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP)
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – Earlier this week, America’s newspaper of record, The New York Times, reported that Iran was behind a plot to bomb the embassy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Ethiopia and that there was a similar plot against the UAE diplomatic mission in Sudan.
The UAE is among those Arab countries that recently normalized relations with Israel, as is Sudan.
The Times report cited multiple sources, including Rear Admiral Heidi Berg, director of intelligence at the Pentagon’s Africa command.
PM Masrour Barzani (right) during a meeting with US Antony Blinken. (Photo: Archive)
WASHINGTON DC, United States (Kurdistan 24) – “We are outraged by today’s rocket attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a written statement following a phone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masrour Barzani, late on Monday.
Two rockets fell earlier that evening on Erbil International Airport, where the US-led Coalition maintains a military base – one of three to which it has moved troops as it consolidates its position in Iraq. A third rocket fell on a busy street in a residential area two kilometers south of the airport, while another landed close to the Chinese consulate.
Erdogan threatens anti-PKK operation in Iraq’s disputed Sinjar 2021/01/23 07:17
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a video conference in Istanbul, July 28, 2020. (Photo: Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday amid Turkish airstrikes in the Kurdistan Region targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) that his military might launch a joint operation with the Iraqi government against the armed group in the disputed city of Sinjar (Shingal).
“Turkey is always ready to carry out joint operations against the PKK with Iraq but we cannot openly announce the date for such operations,” the president told journalists in Istanbul, reported the pro-Turkish government news website Daily Sabah.
2020/12/30 01:52
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) and his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, attend a press conference in Sochi on Dec. 29, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Russian Foreign Ministry)
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu traveled to Russia’s Black Sea resort city of Sochi on Tuesday to meet with Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov.
Their meeting occurred in the context of the Russian-Turkish High Level Co-operation Council and was intended to prepare for a summit in Turkey between the two leaders, although no date has yet been announced for that.
In a joint press conference following the foreign ministers’ talks, Cavusoglu reaffirmed Ankara’s decision to proceed with the S-400, Russia’s advanced air defense system, despite the serious problems it has caused in Ankara’s relations with the US.