Renewed attack by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition group in Iraq's Sulimaniyah province

Iran needs someone to blame for stoking nationwide protests, and Iranian Kurds are the 'weakest link that could be targeted without provoking consequences,' analyst says

Iranian drones targeted an Iranian-Kurdish opposition group in northern Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 32

Explosion occurs on road near Erbil some 3 kilometers from where US is building new mission; no claim of responsibility

Kurdish forces do not say how troops were killed in assault on outpost north of Kirkuk; it is 3rd attack on fighters blamed on IS jihadists in less than 2 weeks

Many welcome normalization as positive sign for their own independence dreams, but some analysts say rapprochement unlikely due to geopolitics, despite shared history

The 77-year-old veteran politician was seen as a unifying figure among Iraq's divided factions and international allies, but popular rage at endemic graft doomed his government

US vice president stays out of Baghdad for security reasons, speaks to Iraqi PM by phone after he declines to visit him on military base

Jonathan Spyer says Erdogan's army indiscriminately shelling civilian areas, though unlikely to carry out massacres; believes Kurds will reject Israeli offer of humanitarian aid

Officials tell Jerusalem-based medical NGO that interior minister 'unreachable' until after Passover, but Shevet Achim says clock is ticking for two-month old Roman