ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Baghdad on Monday expressed its “deep concern” over reports that facilities in Saudi Arabia were targeted by three drones entering from Iraq, noting that “no information had been recorded” by Iraqi surveillance systems regarding the incident, while affirming its readiness to cooperate with Riyadh to clarify the circumstances surrounding the reported assault.

Erbil, Kurdistan Region - Kurdish opposition groups based in the Kurdistan Region on Monday denied to Rudaw any involvement in claims by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that it had foiled an attempt to smuggle “a shipment of weapons” from the Region into Iran’s western Kurdish-majority areas, known as Rojhelat.

Farmers in the Kurdish city of Kobane in northeast Syria (Rojava) are increasingly turning to olive and pistachio cultivation, with residents planting trees across large stretches of farmland despite rising agricultural costs.