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Rasa - Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region is holding an independence referendum in the face of strong objections from the central government in Baghdad and in defiance of urgent calls from the international community to scrap the vote.
News ID: 432663 Publish Date : 2017/09/25
Abadi:
Rasa - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Baghdad will not allow the creation of an “ethnic government” in the Arab country as the Iraqi Kurdish region prepares for a highly controversial planned referendum on its independence on Monday.
News ID: 432660 Publish Date : 2017/09/25
Rasa - The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last week visit of the Latin American countries and talks with the Argentina president supported establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, and said that Tel Aviv backed the aspirations of the Iraqi Kurds for statehood.
News ID: 432655 Publish Date : 2017/09/24
Al-Hayat:
Rasa - The Arabic language al-Hayat daily said rifts are widening between the main Kurdish parties over the Monday referendum, and KRG President Masoud Barzani's party might be eventually left alone.
News ID: 432649 Publish Date : 2017/09/24
Rasa - The UN Security Council has warned that a secession referendum planned to be held in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region next week is potentially “destabilizing” and threatens the ongoing war against Daesh terrorists.
News ID: 432594 Publish Date : 2017/09/22
Rasa - Iraqi authorities say they have moved some 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Daesh Takfiri terrorists to a new site north of Mosul, which used to be the terror group’s de facto capital in the Arab country, dismissing the concerns of aid organizations.
News ID: 432517 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
Rasa - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Kurds in Iraq to scrap plans to hold a referendum on independence later this month, arguing it would detract from the fight against the ISIL group.
News ID: 432511 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
Rasa - Iraqi Vice President Nouri al-Maliki has denounced a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq, warning that Baghdad would not tolerate the establishment of “a second Israel,” after the occupying regime became the only entity to support the so-called plebiscite.
News ID: 432499 Publish Date : 2017/09/18
Rasa - Iraqi Kurdish legislators of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region have approved a plan to hold a referendum on independence from Baghdad later this month.
News ID: 432495 Publish Date : 2017/09/17
Rasa – As the Iraqi Kurdistan Region is gearing up for an independence referendum next week, a top Iranian national security official warned Sunday that the country would seal its common frontier with the Kurds and shut all border crossings if the semi-autonomous region secedes from Iraq.
News ID: 432482 Publish Date : 2017/09/17
PM Abadi:
Rasa - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Kurdish authorities are “playing with fire” by planning to hold a referendum on the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
News ID: 432481 Publish Date : 2017/09/17
Rasa - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voices support for the formation of a Kurdish state in the lead-up to a planned independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, which has sparked strong criticisms from the central government as well as Iraq’s neighbors.
News ID: 432376 Publish Date : 2017/09/13
Senior Member of Popular Mobilization Forces:
Rasa – Ayyad al-Rabi’i said that the complete liberation of Tal Afar from Daesh will soon be announced shortly.
News ID: 432041 Publish Date : 2017/08/30
Iraqi Missionary and Soldier:
Rasa – Hujjat al-Islam Kadhim al-Asadi said that the main factor behind efforts for Iraqi Kurdistan to proclaim independence is Israel and some of the countries supporting that regime who have been engaged in actions to incite the Kurds to separate from Iraq.
News ID: 431997 Publish Date : 2017/08/30
Rasa - Iraq has roundly rejected a senior Kurdish official's suggestion to postpone a planned Sept. 25 referendum on independence in return for financial and political concessions from Baghdad, a London-based paper says.
News ID: 431834 Publish Date : 2017/08/21
Rasa - Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed interest in partitioning Iraq and establishing an independent Kurdish state in the Arab country during a meeting with a delegation of 33 US Republican congressmen.
News ID: 431675 Publish Date : 2017/08/14
Rasa - Representative of the Kurdish Gorran Movement at Iraq's parliament Shirin Reza dismissed as impossible establishment of a Saudi military base in Kurdistan region.
News ID: 431057 Publish Date : 2017/07/17
Rasa - In comments that are doubtless going to add further chaos to the Syrian crisis, US Defense Secretary James Mattis insists the current program of arming the Kurdish YPG faction would not end after the capture of the ISIL-held city of Raqqa, and that they might just change the sort of weapons they’re giving the Kurds after that.
News ID: 430667 Publish Date : 2017/06/29
Rasa - The US has sent tens of trucks full of light and semi-heavy weapons to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), media reports said.
News ID: 430412 Publish Date : 2017/06/17
Syria:
Rasa - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued the anti-ISIL Euphrates Rage Operation in Western Raqqa and managed to drive the terrorists out of more neighborhoods in al-Tabaqa city, killing over 40 of them.
News ID: 429323 Publish Date : 2017/04/29