Iran vows to strike back if US destroys more of its drones over Iraq - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Sep 30, 2022

AFP via Getty Images — A partial view shows the aftermath of Iranian cross-border attacks in the area of Zargwez, near the Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah, on Sept. 28, 2022. — AFP via Getty Images

Smoke billows on the horizon in the village of Altrun Kupri, in the Sherawa region, south of Erbil in Iraq's Kurdistan, where a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party is located, on Sept. 28, 2022.

Tehran strikes Kurdish opponents in Iraq as protests over Mahsa Amini’s death convulse Iran

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

An Iranian Kurdish peshmerga member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI).

Iran renews ultimatum for Iraq to disarm Kurdish opposition groups

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Supporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rest during a protest.

Deadly intra-Shiite violence rattles Iraq’s Kurds

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In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

The Iraqi Minister of Oil Adel Abdel Mahdi (R) takes a tour a floating platform for oil tankers on September 21, 2014, offshore from the southern Iraqi port city of Al Faw, 90 kilometres south of Basra. An OPEC report on September 10, 2014 said that demand for oil would grow by 1.05 million barrels per day in 2014 to 91.2 million in 2015, trimming 50,000 barrels from the previous outlook. Demand in 2015 is expected to grow 1.19 million barrels per day, 20,000 barrels a day fewer than before, the cartel sa

Kurdish, Iraqi energy ministers pledge new era of cooperation

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