Civic groups and legal experts say reports of abduction and forced disappearances of opposition party members are on the rise.

Realizing that its current allies are not sufficient to secure Turkey’s interests in Libya, Ankara is now seeking to include Gadhafi family members into its calculus.

The Iraqi government has already thwarted attempts at fraud and election rigging ahead of Oct. 10.

Following an Islamic State attack in which over a dozen Iraqi policemen were killed, the prime minister criticized military leaders’ “shortcomings” and pledged to address the issue. Meanwhile, counterterrorism operations continue in the same disputed province to prevent further attacks.

Turkey stepped up its attacks against Kurds in Syria, which raised concerns among the Kurdish forces over the US and Russian roles.

A member of the delegation of the North and East Syrian Autonomous Administration in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region stated that the visit of the delegation to Moscow and Washington sends a message to the international community that only two forces, the administration and the Syrian central government, will resolve the Syrian political crisis.

The head of the media office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) stated that the party hopes to rejoin the Movement for Change (Gorran).

The US President Joe Biden, like all previous US administrators, does not want to confront Turkey and will not put Kurdish concerns above his ties with Turkey, a political affairs analyst told Kurdpress.

Hikmet Serbilind, the President General of the Kurdistan Islamic Party (PÎK or Partiya Îslamiya Kurdistan) told Kurdpress in an interview that the differences between the Kurds would not resolve unless the differences between them are not resolved.

Dr. Djene Bajalan described the recent tensions and clashes between the two joint presidents of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) as another blow to the party.

The National Initiative for Afrin on Monday accused Turkey of attempting a demographic change in Afrin, a Kurdish city located in northwest Syria, North Press Agency reported.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Russia later this month to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and discuss the violence in northwestern Syria, Reuters reported on Friday.

General Manager Iraq’s oil marketer SOMO Ala Yasseri said on Saturday, September 18, that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has not delivered any quantity of crude oil or its monetary equivalent to the federal government, despite its obligations under the 2021 Federal Budget Law.

Security forces have detained the main suspect of killing and wounding two persons, including a Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) member in Sulaimani, authorities said on Saturday.

Forming an inclusive government and preventing foreign interference is the key to solving Afghanistan's problems, Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi said in his meeting with the Prime minister of Pakistan.