Middle East|Turkey's Push to Join Battle for Mosul Inflames Tension With Iraq - New York Times
New York Times | Middle East|Turkey's Push to Join Battle for Mosul Inflames Tension With Iraq New York Times President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey in Ankara last week. Turkey has about 600 to 800 troops at Bashiqa, near Mosul, a deployment that Iraq says it never approved. Credit Pool photo by Murat Cetinmuhurdar. ERBIL, Iraq — A dispute between Iraq and ... Peshmerga forces 5 miles from Iraq's Mosul in key battle against ISIS EU authorities brace for wave of Islamic State fighters after Mosul assault Mosul offensive: Turkish and Kurdish forces launch attacks on IS |