Iraq’s President Barham Salih has pledged to make every effort to help implement agreements aimed at facilitating pilgrimage affairs between the two neighbors.

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the Turkish military operation in northern Iraq, calling it a violation of sovereignty and contrary to the principle of good neighborliness and international law.

The Iraqi Minister of Culture, Hassan Nadhem, said on Monday, April 18, officials from the ministry met with a delegation from Iran for talks on easing procedures for tourists at the countries’ land borders.

Clashes erupted between Iraqi military and Shingal Resistance Units (YBS) in Shingal district on Monday.

Turkish military has established four new military bases in the Kurdistan Region’s Amedi district amid a new cross-border operation, Esta Media Network reported on Monday.

Yasar Yakis believes the sale or no deal of US F-16 fighter jets to Turkey will have no effect on continued US support for the Syrian Kurds.

Dozens of journalists have fled northwest Syria, some paying fortunes to reach Europe, to escape the Syrian opposition factions and Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham.

A journalist from Qamishlo reported no agreement had yet been reached between the Syrian Kurdish-led autonomous administration and government forces on the security square.

The United States seeks to conclude stalled talks between the Syrian Kurds.

The Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein, said on Monday, April 18, the US State Department’s report on the situation of human rights and freedom of expression in Iraq does not pass scrutiny.

The Iranian ambassador Iraj Masjedi met with the President of Iraq Barham Salih on Monday at the end of his diplomatic mission in Baghdad.

Reuters reported that the Syrian Kurds controlled the government-affiliated institutions in the city of Qamishlo in response to restrictions on Kurdish neighborhoods in Aleppo and Moscow is unable to control the tensions.

Removing the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from a list of terrorist organizations could help end an armed conflict and resolve the Kurdish issue in Turkey, scholar and Secretary-General of the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) Michael M. Gunter wrote in an article for the Maple Institute on Saturday.

Turkey on Monday said it has launched a new air and ground offensive against Kurdish forces of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraqi Kurdistan involving special forces and combat drones, Agence France-Presse reported.

The Iraqi Minister of Oil, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, said on Saturday, April 16, there were three things that needed to be resolved regarding the Kurdistan Region’s oil issue with the federal government.

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurazhar mountain in Duhok province for hours on Saturday, according to a witness.

Turkey’s agricultural producers are grappling with exorbitant cost increases that threaten further blows to the country’s food production amid an already galloping inflation.

Turkey’s agricultural producers are grappling with exorbitant cost increases that threaten further blows to the country’s food production amid an already galloping inflation.

Iran’s President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi told Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Thursday that Tehran will not allow the Israelis to endanger Iran’s security through neighboring countries, especially Iraq.

The Syrian Democratic Forces and Asayish have withdrawn from government buildings in Qamishlo, after taking control of parts of the city in northeast Syria on Thursday morning.

The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masrour Barzani, met with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, April 15, at Dolmabahce Palace in Istanbul where they discussed relations between the Region and Turkey, Anadolu Agency said.

Kurdish Internal Security Forces (ISF) took control of Syrian government institutional buildings in Qamishlo early on Thursday, April 14, morning, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.

The Turkish president is expected to travel to the kingdom during Ramadan following the end of the Khashoggi case in Turkey.

Iraq's State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO) said on Monday, April 11, that it respects the federal court's decision on the unconstitutionality of the Kurdistan Region's oil contracts with International Oil Companies (IOCs).

The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Leader Bafel Talabani met with a high-level delegation from Sunni Azim Alliance led by Muthanna Samaraiy in Sulaimani on Monday.