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Thousands of Yazidis have become stranded in northern Iraq’s mountains while trying to flee the advances of the Islamic State group
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NATO member Turkey's military has stopped training Kurdish peshmerga fighters following the "yes" vote in northern Iraq's controversial independence referendum.
The Iraqi-Kurdish referendum on independence could benefit Kurds in Syria if leaders push the Syrian government to negotiate over autonomy in the north, officials said on Wednesday.
The Assad regime is open to negotiations with Kurds over giving them some form of self-rule in Syria once Islamic State is defeated, according to the Syrian foreign minister.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has barred government officials from commenting on Monday's Kurdish independence vote, despite endorsing the referendum in September as one of its sole global backers.
Turkey approved a one-year extension of a mandate to use troops abroad in Syria and Iraq, two days before Iraq's Kurdish region is due to hold a controversial independence referendum.
Gunmen on motorcycles began to shoot one of the offices Monday night. The guards returned fire, killing one and wounding two of the assailants
Iraq's military stands armed and ready to intervene if violence breaks out during the Kurdish referendum vote, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said.
The Iraqi parliament voted on Tuesday to oppose an independence referendum planned by Iraqi Kurdish leaders for later this month prompting a walkout by Kurdish lawmakers.
Syria's tourism minister wants to boost the country's tourism industry with the opening of international flights, as a bloody war rages on in the country.