
An Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of “a second Israel” after the Zionist entity became the only country to support a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq. The leaders of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan must “call off the (September 25) referendum that is ...

The Lebanese President Michel Aoun urged the Lebanese people not to be dragged behind rumors, saying “they come with an orchestrated context to distract attention from the achievements of the nation-building process.” President Aoun’s position came in a statement issued prior to his departure to New York, where he is ...