Kurdistan

Iraqi official said the arrested suspects had also planned to attack busy market areas in the capital, Baghdad, if there was "pressure from the federal government or government forces against them."

AT THE TABLE with Yehuda Ben-Yosef, an Israeli-Kurd community leader and municipal election candidate who wants Kurdistan to be Israel's next Azerbaijan.

Iranian media uses antisemitic tropes of an image of a rabbi to claim that a Kurdish businessman was linked to ‘Mossad.’

The overall message of Iran is that it will continue to carry out attacks where it pleases.

Several civilians are believed to have died in the attack, with Kurdish regional government officials announcing the death of a prominent businessman and four of his family members.

Arbid is a small airport used for helicopters and is located 50 km (30 miles) to the east of the city of Sulaimaniya in the northeast of the country.

Many of Iraqi Kurdistan's neighbors are jealous of its success and are chomping at the bit to undermine it.

While Iran and Turkey may not always see things the same way, they increasingly share interests.

Kurdish forces controlled the city after driving Islamic State out in 2014 but were ejected by the Iraqi army in 2017.

Several rockets landed near the perimeter of the large Khor Mor gas field in the Sulaimaniya region of northern Iraq.