Lebanon’s and Egypt’s national carriers will halt flights to the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital Arbil this week at the request of the Baghdad authorities, they said on Wednesday. Their decision comes after Iraq’s government threatened to ban international flights to and from Iraqi Kurdistan after the region held an independence ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi demanded Wednesday that this week’s vote on ‘independence’ for the autonomous Kurdish region be annulled. “The referendum must be annulled and dialogue initiated in the framework of the constitution. We will never hold talks on the results of the referendum,” he told Iraqi lawmakers. “We ...