International news agencies have cited Turkish threats and efforts by Erbil and Baghdad to implement the Shingal Agreement as factors in clashes between Iraqi forces and Shingal Defense Units (YBS).

A high-level delegation from the Iraqi military arrived in Shingal on Tuesday, May 3, following clashes between the army and Shingal Resistance Units (YBS).

The co-chair of the Executive Council of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) Co-Chair Cemil Bayik said that the aim of the recent war was to transfer gas from the Middle East through Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey to Europe.

Thamer al-Shammari, head of the Future Syria Party in Deir ez-Zor, east Syria, said on Sunday, May 1, that the recent escalation of the Turkish attacks on northeast Syria has revived ISIS cells in the region and fueled their ambition to resurge.

The United Nations Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) has called on Iraqi political leaders to "accelerate the government formation process" in the country in a message it issued yesterday, May 2.

Dialogue and consultation between the political parties in Iraq for reaching an agreement is the only way out of the political impasse in this country, the former Iranian ambassador to Baghdad stressed.

The representative of the Syrian Democratic Assembly in the Iraqi Kurdistan region said the self-government administration had prepared itself for any confrontation with possible dangers and was taking the threats seriously, politically and diplomatically, as well as socially and militarily.

Residents of Shingal district fled renewed clashes between Iraqi forces and the Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) that broke out on Sunday, May 1, night, local sources report.

The Fatah Alliance has refused a solution to the political deadlock in Baghdad proposed by the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani.

Two Turkish soldiers were killed during Turkey’s cross-border operation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, according to the country’s defense ministry.

An agreement between Damascus and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has ended a mutual blockade on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo and areas under the control of Syrian regime forces in Qamishlo and Hasaka, Rojava Information Center (RIC) said on Saturday, April 30.

A member of the Central Committee of the Syrian Kurdistan Democratic Party (PDK.S) said: "We are part of the Syrian opposition coalition, which is present at international meetings, but we are not part of the military actions and inhumane behavior of armed groups and we have no force within them."

An end to years of tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia is near, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi said in an interview published on Saturday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said arm sales to Turkey should be speeded up, state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

The director of the Sharpress Media Institute in the Kurdistan Region and a prominent political analyst said about the region's gas export project that "What can be seen now is that the KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) sees this project (gas export) as its monopoly project, although it is being pursued in the name of the KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) and the Prime Minister himself, but the other parties have not participated. And the Iraqi central government is not involved in this project."

Turkey is reportedly seeking to create a safe zone in northern Iraq, just as it did in Syria, where it succeeded in controlling a strip of land that includes Kurdish areas and villages that were later handed over to its allied Syrian militias to be managed.

Iran is committed to providing Iraq with natural gas and both countries have reached an agreement, Iraq’s Minister of Electricity, Adil Karim, said on Thursday, April 28.

The Co-President of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Bafel Talabani, said transparency in exporting gas was required and that the public must be a part of the process.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil has said Baghdad is responsible for solving security issues in Shingal and implementing the recent agreement between Erbil and Baghdad.

More Kurdish political analysts claim that Turkey is gradually occupying and seeking to annex northern Iraq under the pretext of fighting militants of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK

A delegation from the Sunni Sovereignty (al-Siyada) Coalition which included the bloc’s leader, Khamis al-Khanjar, and the Speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed al-Halbousi, met the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani, on Tuesday, April 26.

The Turkish Minister of Defense, Hulusi Akar, said on Monday, April 25, the first phase of the country’s cross-border Operation Claw Lock against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has come to an end.

A former Kurdish member of the Iraqi parliament stated a plan by Kurdistan Region, Israel, Turkey and the Gulf countries to control natural gas in the Middle East.

A leader of the State of Law Coalition stressed that the Kirkuk oil wells are the reasons behind Turkish forces' operation into Iraq.

Iraq’s Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would unveil a proposal to parliament to criminalize the normalization of relations with Israel.