Iraq’s supreme court on Monday declared that September’s referendum on independence in the autonomous Kurdish areas in the north of the country was unconstitutional. A statement said the court “rendered a decision declaring unconstitutional the referendum held on September 25, 2017 in Iraqi Kurdistan… and cancelling all the consequences and ...
The Iraq army said it launched an assault on Friday on the small Euphrates valley town of Rawa, the last in the country still held by the Takfiri ISIL group. “Operations to liberate Rawa began at dawn,” the Joint Operations Command said in a statement. The launch of the attack ...