from the News Desk at The Cradle, August 3, 2026 Washington is beginning “a previously arranged” and “preplanned” drawdown in Iraq, which will see it withdraw forces from the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region, according to Asharq al-Awsat’s report released on 2 August. Kifah Mahmoud, media advisor to the president of …
Read More »The US Steals Syrian Oil, and the Kurds Sell it to Israel at a Discount
by Steven Sahiounie, published on Mideast Discourse, January 23, 2024 Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRG) claimed responsibility for missile attacks on an Israeli “spy headquarters.” Kurdish businessman Peshraw Dizayee and four of his family members were killed in the attack on their home on January 16 near the US Consulate in …
Read More »Tracking the Flow of Stolen Syrian Oil into Iraq
by the Iraq Correspondent of The Cradle, September 28, 2022 Although the porous Iraqi-Syrian border stretches for over 600 kilometers, about half of it – in practice – is not subject to the authority of either state. Over the years, this lack of comprehensive border control has given rise to …
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