Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Adnan al-Zurfi has withdrawn his candidacy for the post as major political factions endorse intelligence chief Mustafa Al Kadhimi to form a government.

Iraq's newly appointed Prime minister Mustafa al-Kazemi stressed in his trilingual tweet released on Thursday that the new Iraqi government will prioritize the needs and the demands of the Iraqis.

Two Peshmerga were killed during an attack on Kolajo village in Garmian by unidentified militants, an officer with the Peshmerga’s Five Brigade said on Tuesday night, April 7.

Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani said on Wednesday, April 8, that he supports the nomination of Mustafa al-Kadhimi for Iraqi prime minister and urged the country’s political factions to support it as well.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the White House will start a "strategic" dialogue with the Iraqi authorities in the middle of June, adding that a variety of issues, including possible future American military deployments, will be on the agenda.

A blast caused by an improvised explosive device on a road in southeast Turkey has killed five forestry workers, the Associated Press said on Wednesday.

Iraqi President Barham Saleh has named intelligence chief Mustafa al-Kadhimi as the country's prime minister-designate, state TV reported on Thursday.

Iran's military attaché in Iraq Mostafa Moradian conferred on Friday with the Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari on the expansion of military and defense cooperation.

Sarisu trans-boundary market is a new gateway for imports of goods from Turkey to Iran, Spokesman of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration (IRICA) Rouhollah Latifi, announced on Tuesday, April 7.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Turkish counterpart Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavuşolu held a phone conversation on Tuesday on the latest issues related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Many had expected that rights and freedoms would be among the first victims of the coronavirus crisis in Turkey, as they have been in any other turmoil in the country. Indeed, health professionals disputing the official tally of coronavirus cases have faced probes or seen their social media accounts blocked, while journalists have landed in police custody for their coverage of the pandemic, including one already in prison, pending trial for a tweet lampooning a donation campaign launched by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The United States will hold talks with Iraq in June on the future of its troop presence in the country, whose parliament has voted to expel them, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.

An officer in the US army and two fighters from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed in an ambush in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ez-Zor.

A center for Kurdish language and culture research, the Kurdish Institute of Istanbul, received some 1,048 applications within 24 hours of announcing that they would be opening up new spots for their online classes in the Kurmancî and Kurmanckî dialects of Kurdish.

The President of Kurdistan Region, Nechirvan Barzani, thanked the people in the region on Monday for their commitment to preventive measures to curb the outbreak of Corona virus.