Iraqi protesters converged in the capital Baghdad to condemn Saudi daily Asharq al-Awsat newspaper over an offensive cartoon depicting Iraq’s most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali al-Sistani. The demonstrators staged the protest outside the gates of the heavily-fortified Green Zone, which is home to several embassies and government ...
Turkish bombardment has killed a Kurdish shepherd in northern Iraq, a local official said on Friday, the first known civilian victim of Ankara’s air and ground assault on the region. The official from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Ihsan Chalabi, told AFP the shepherd was killed early Thursday morning when Turkish ...
