Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu accused Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi of ‘weakness’ as tensions rose Wednesday after Ankara deployed tanks and artillery near Iraq. Abadi had warned Ankara not to provoke a confrontation and said any invasion would see Iraq’s northern neighbor repelled after Turkey sent the 30-vehicle convoy ...
Leader of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group Abu Bakr Baghdadi is still hiding in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, Fuad Hussein, chief of staff to Iraqi Kurdistan’s President Masoud Barzani, said. “Baghdadi is there and, if he is killed, it will mean ...
