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AA Photo President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Monday that Turkey considers the independence referendum in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) null and void and illegitimate regardless of its results, adding that there may be economic and military repercussions. Speaking at a forum in Istanbul, Erdoğan stated that the Habur border gate with Iraq, which […]

President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani has cast his voice in the historic referendum on independence early Monday morning in Pirmam, near the capital of Erbil, in a bid to begin the process to separate from Iraq.  Independence Referendum Kurdistan Erbil Iraq Masoud Barzani ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – President of the Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani has […]

Iranian border guards Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iranian artillery forces carried out an intense bombardment on the borders with Kurdistan, hours before a Kurdish vote on independence from Iraq, news reports said. Alsumaria News said the bombardment targeted border areas in Guoman, northeast of Kurdish capital, Erbil. The network’s reporter saw columns of smoke rising from the […]

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the site of a missile attack in Hawiqah neighbourhood in the eastern Syrian town of Deir Ezzor © Zac Baillie Lieutenant-General Valery Asapov, of the Russian armed forces, has been killed after coming under shelling from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants near Deir ez-Zor, the Russian Defense Ministry has […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel secured a fourth consecutive term on Sunday after her Christian Democrats (CDU) and the allied Christian Social Union (CSU) won the largest parliamentary bloc with 32.5 percent of the vote, exit polls showed. Merkel’s conservative bloc will be by far the largest parliamentary group, according to an exit poll for the […]

Physicists are working to harness the properties of atomic particles to build faster computers based on light transmissions. | ISTOCK Japanese scientists have invented an approach to quantum computing that renders a far larger number of calculations more efficiently than existing quantum computers. Under the new method, many pulses of light, each carrying information, are […]

BOSASO: Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland seized a boat loaded with weapons from Yemen in Saturday’s early hours, the regional maritime police chief said. Puntland authorities displayed dozens of anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, AK-47 rifles and dozens of boxes of ammunition seized from the boat after it was stopped in coastal waters off the Horn […]

Photo: Jens Büttner/DPA/AFP Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to cruise to victory in elections Sunday but also to face the breakthrough into parliament of hard-right populists for the first time in Germany’s post-war history. Voting began at 0600 GMT in Europe’s biggest economy and exit polls are announced at 1600 GMT, with few expecting surprises […]

FILE PHOTO: A view of the test-fire of Pukguksong-2 guided by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on the spot in Pyongyang. KCNA / Reuters The bad-mouthing by the US president only makes a North Korean strike on the US “inevitable,” while the sanctions would not move Pyongyang’s resolve to develop nuclear and missile weaponry […]