Baghdad administration

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leader Masoud Barzani will push for a Sept. 25 statehood referendum for the autonomous region in northern Iraq until the last minute, but may withdraw from the move if Baghdad and Washington meet its demands, a Turkmen leader has said. 

The Mosul operation has started, while a symbolic opening kickoff will be conducted in the coming days.  I will try to convey the parameters of the Mosul operation, within the context of its effects on Turkey. Mosul has been in the hands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) since June 2014. 

Turkey's main nationalist leader has stood behind the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) government in a diplomatic row with Baghdad over the deployment of Turkish troops in a northern Iraqi camp after Baghdad took umbrage with the move.