Mandatory Iraq

Turkey issued a travel warning on Oct. 25 for Turks in Iraq as that country experience anti-government demonstrations.

In a Baghdad cafe, a hundred men from across Iraq carefully follow the auction of momentos from the nearly four decades of monarchic rule that ended with a bloody coup in 1958

Iraq will return with an important role on the political map of the Middle East, Prof. Vladimir Chukov, an Arab World expert, told FOCUS Radio's morning show.

Photo: Al-Alam

"Kurdish independence is on a trajectory," wherein it's not a question of whether the Kurds will form an independent state, but a question of how soon, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Gen. Vincent Stewart told lawmakers on Tuesday.

Turkey and Iraq summoned their respective ambassadors on Oct. 5 amid bitter verbal exchanges regarding Turkish troops in the Bashiqa region of Mosul, as tension rises between two neighboring countries ahead of a planned operation against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Some historians give credit for the original idea of carving zones of influence out of the "sick man of Europe," the Ottoman Empire, to Sergey Sazanov, who was the Russian foreign minister before and during the First World War.

Iraq's foreign minister has reiterated demands that Turkish troops pull out of northern Iraq, warning Ankara that Baghdad may otherwise have to consider military action.