Turkey’s military operations will therefore ultimately serve to entrench a permanent, though likely clandestine and informal, Turkish military and intelligence presence in northern Iraq, likely ...

Erdogan said Turkey would act inside Iraq and Syria on its own terms. “We do not need to take permission for this, we are not planning to get it,” he told a conference in Istanbul.

Averting A Potential Turkey-Iraq Crisis November 5, 2007 / 12:07 PM EST / The New Republic ...

The oil pipeline running from the semi-autonomous Kurdish region to Turkey has been shut down since March 2023, after an arbitration court ruling ordered Ankara to pay Iraq $1.5 billion for oil ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, rand Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani review honor guards during the latter's official visit to Turkey, in Ankara on Thursday, May 8, 2025.

ANKARA, Turkey -- Iraq on Thursday accused Turkey of interfering in its internal affairs after Turkey's foreign minister paid a surprise visit to a northern Iraqi city seen as a testing ground for ...

FILE PHOTO: Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan give a joint statement to the media in Baghdad, Iraq April 22, 2024.

Turkey shut down the pipeline because Iraq's federal government won the right to control loading at Ceyhan. Iraq's SOMO would have to instruct Turkey on ship-loading, or the crude would have built ...

In Turkey, the cumulative anti-U.S. resentment peaked in 2003 when the Bush administration pressed Ankara to let U.S. forces invade Iraq through Turkish territory—a plan that was derailed only ...

Turkey carried out a series of airstrikes in neighboring Iraq and Syria on Saturday, according to its defense ministry. The strikes come as the U.S and other countries launched separate strikes in ...

In March 2003, U.S. troops parachuted into Iraq’s north and took up positions in the most fraught conflict then going in that part of the country: A looming battle between Turkey and the Kurds ...