A leading member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) stated that the party will not accept any attempt to annul the votes of the Kurdish forces of Peshmerga in Iraqi parliament elections on May 12 when the party won the majority of votes in Kurdistan Region.

Turkish fighter jets have stepped up airstrikes on Kurdistan Region’s Mount Qandil, allegedly targeting positions belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

UN refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie on Sunday (June 17) visited the displaced families in the province of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, in her fifth trip to Iraq since 2001, a UNHCR report said.

Iraq called on Turkey to respect the country’s territorial integrity, after Ankara announced operations on Sinjar and Qandil regions.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday, June 14, invited the political groups to meet after Eid al-Fitr holiday to discuss the formation of a new Iraqi cabinet, Reuters reported.

A leading member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Abdulrazaq Faili, passes away at age 73 at a hospital in Sulaimani.

Tehran has officially protested to the Iraqi Kurdistan’s authorities following a number of unsuccessful attempts by terror groups based in the semi-autonomous region to break into neighboring Iran.

The doors of the new alliance between Sa’eroon and the Fatah List are also open to the Nasr List, led by Prime Minister Haider Abadi, and Kurds as well t form the new Iraqi government.

The Turkish military said on Tuesday, June 12, that it attacked the bases of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Kurdistan Region in airstrikes overnight and destroyed 12 targets belonging to the party.

Turkey has launched military operations against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Kurdistan Region, targeting its headquarters in the Qandil Mountain region and in the Sinjar province of the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. 

A spokesman for Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that the Supreme Federal Court is the only entity that has the right to decide whether a parliamentary election can be re-run.

A fire incident on Sunday ravaged a warehouse in central Baghdad where the ballot boxes from the recent Iraqi parliamentary election, held on May 12.

The Iraqi government is expected to deploy more of its security forces to the northern Kurdish- majority province of Kirkuk this week, said a report on Saturday.

Kurdistan Region ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has no objections to the manual recounting of ballot boxes for the recent Iraqi parliamentary election, a representative from the party said.

Two Turkey military experts believe the U.S. would not go against the likely Ankara operation into Qandil Mountains in Kurdistan Region; the main base of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).