Kurdish flags fly over Kirkuk as Iraq stands on the verge of disintegration
Iraq’s slow disintegration as a unitary nation was something of an inevitability in the aftermath of the illegal US-UK invasion of 2003. The plan to divide and pacify Iraq largely failed in respect of...
View ArticleBREAKING: Iraq authorises troop deployment in Kirkuk
Of the many controversial elements surrounding this week’s Kurdish separatist referendum in Iraq, the inclusion of the oil rich region of Kirkuk was among the most controversial. Kirkuk has never been...
View ArticleIraq’s new war: The Battle of Kirkuk intensifies as Iraqi troops make new gains
According to local reports, Iraqi troops and Iraq’s volunteer Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) have been engaged in fierce clashes with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in the northern city of Kirkuk. Iraqi...
View ArticleFirst video of liberated Kirkuk
Kirkuk and its vast oil fields are now officially back under Iraqi control after years of illegal rule, first by the illegitimate ISIS terror group and since 2014 by unauthorised Kurdish militants. As...
View ArticleCollapse in Iraqi Kurdistan: US’s Plan C fails before it begins
On 6th October 2017 – less than two weeks ago – I wrote a lengthy article for The Duran explaining how the US, having failed to achieve regime change in Syria (“Plan A”) and having failed to engineer...
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