Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 , 20:03 AFP — Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday said he rejected any type of referendum on independence for the northern autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 , 14:39 AFP — Israel has become the only country to openly support an independent Kurdish state, a result of good ties between Kurds and Jews and expectations it would be a front against Iran and extremism, experts say.
Tuesday, 19 September, 2017 , 03:34 AFP — Iraqi Kurds may have long dreamed of founding their own state, but the independence referendum set for September 25 has also exposed divisions between their autonomous region's main cities.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 20:17 AFP — A motorbike bomb killed a child and wounded seven people in the Kurdish-majority Syrian town of Qamishli on Monday in an attack the security forces blamed on a pro-regime militia.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 15:45 AFP — France's top diplomat on Monday urged Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to cancel next week's planned independence vote, warning that now is not the time to go it alone.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 14:42 AFP — Russian energy giant Rosneft announced Monday it intends to help build a gas pipeline in Iraqi Kurdistan, a move bolstering Moscow's links to the region as it eyes independence.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 14:18 AFP — Iraq's supreme court Monday ordered the suspension of a September 25 referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, as legal and political pressure mounted on the Kurds to call off the vote.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 12:46 AFP — An Iraqi Kurdish plan to hold a September 25 independence referendum, which has hit a legal roadblock with just a week to go, is more of a tool to pressure Baghdad than a step towards actual secession, observers say.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 12:01 AFP — Iraq's supreme court Monday ordered the suspension of a September 25 referendum on the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan, as legal and political pressure mounted on the Kurds to call off the vote.
Monday, 18 September, 2017 , 10:53 AFP — Britain's Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said he would try to persuade Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani at a meeting later Monday to call off a controversial September 25 independence referendum.
