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Al-Monitor
March 27, 2018
Yazidi civilians in Sinjar fear that they are the next target of the mighty US-supplied F-16s of the Turkish state, as Erdogan threatens "another Operation Olive Branch” in Sinjar to “clear the region of terrorists.” In August 2014, Dezhwar, who served in the 2nd Division of the Iraqi army for eight years, watchedÃâà...
Task & Purpose
March 27, 2018
Briggs, 30, held the rank of staff sergeant when he died. The airmen, based at Gabreski airfield in Westhampton Beach, were among seven U.S. service members killed March 15 when their helicopter crashed near the Syrian border in western Iraq. Military officials said the crash did not appear to be causedÃâà...
PRESSTV
March 27, 2018
Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Baghdad will not allow cross-border attacks on Turkey days after Ankara said it had launched a military campaign against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq. Abadi told his Turkish counterpart, Binali Yildirim, during a phone conversation on Monday that Iraqi armed forcesÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 27, 2018
It's unclear whether reports of Kurdish militants' withdrawal from Sinjar in Iraq have convinced Turkey not to launch a military offensive. ... Therefore, while Turkey's army has been stepping up its military operations against PKK bases scattered over Qandil and surrounding regions, it has also established aÃâà...
Iraqi News
March 27, 2018
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) – Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has stressed that his country has no plan to carry out any military operation against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) fighters in Iraq without obtaining the approval of the Iraqi government first. Yıldırım made the remakes in a phone call with hisÃâà...
TRT World
March 27, 2018
Iraq's Sinjar region, where the Iraqi army started an operation against the PKK, has been a hot topic for both Turkish and Iraqi officials who have been ... The comments from Jaafari came after Turkey successfully finished another military operation on the PKK and its Syrian affiliate YPG in Syria's Afrin.
U.S. News & World Report
March 27, 2018
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi armed forces will prevent Kurdish militants based in northern Iraq from staging cross-border attacks against Turkey, Iraqi ... On Monday Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's intelligence chief would meet an Iraqi official to discuss the Iraqi military operation in Sinjar.
