Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem has rejected a controversial independence referendum by Iraq’s Kurds being held on Monday as “unacceptable,” saying Damascus only recognized a unified Iraq. Iraqi Kurds are voting Monday in a non-binding referendum on independence that has been opposed by virtually every country in the region, as ...
Iran has shut its border with Iraqi Kurdistan in response to its independence referendum, the foreign ministry said Monday. “At the request of the Iraqi government, we have closed our land and air borders” with Iraqi Kurdistan, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said at a press conference. The referendum is ...
