BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* Turkey has long since expressed its thoughts and attitude regarding Syria and Iraq. Ankara time after time stated what sort of a future the sectarian approach of the Maliki regime in Baghdad [ More … ]
Ahead of Kuwait leg of tour, Iranian president says Shiites and Sunnis have ‘coexisted for hundreds of years’ Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country sought good relations with its Gulf Arab neighbours as he [ More … ]
Amnesty International accused – in a recent report on Tuesday, Oct. 18 – the Shi’a militias, known as the Popular Mobilization Units, as well as Iraqi government forces of committing “serious human rights violations, including [ More … ]
A much-anticipated Mosul offensive to liberate the city from Daesh began midnight Sunday, according to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, reported Anadolu Agency. In an address on state television, Abadi said only the Iraqi army and police [ More … ]
BY: Özlem Albayrak* We have been listening to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s salvos against Turkey for days now. The Abadi government that could not even prevent the Shiites and Sunnis in his capital city [ More … ]
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