An EU spokesperson told reporters that they expect Turkey to adhere to the deal and said that there has been no official change in Ankara’s stance towards asylum seekers or refugees

Measures taken by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to prevent the spread of coronavirus have been praised by the World Health Organization (WHO), but more needs to be done to help raise public awareness, an official from the agency’s Iraq branch said Friday.

Turkish troops targeted by Syrian regime forces on Thursday were embedded with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadists, Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday.

Iraq’s parliament has postponed a vote on whether to approve Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfik Allawi’s new cabinet until Saturday after the legislature failed to meet quorum on Thursday.

An acquaintance of the deceased family told Rudaw that the three killed were Hesen Haj Izzat, 55, his wife Fatima, and their 12-year-old daughter Sirusht Hesen.

“As long as they [Peshmerga] are not the Army and Police, then they are a militia,” Sadr asserted - calling for the disbandment of the Kurdish forces.

Sadr, who heads the Iraqi parliament’s biggest bloc, Sayirun, has thrown his support behind the new PM-designate, who hopes to win parliamentary approval for his cabinet of independents and technocrats on Thursday.

Iraq’s health ministry confirmed on Monday that an Iranian student in the Shiite holy city of Najaf has tested positive for the coronavirus.

In a phone call on Sunday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Iraq’s Prime Minister-designate Mohammed Tawfik Allawi to protect US troops stationed in Iraq and to reach an agreement with Kurdish and Sunni parties over the composition of his new cabinet.

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