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GOVERNMENT and Kurdish forces exchanged fire yesterday near the border of semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan.
Baghdad troops shelled Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) positions north and south of Altun Kupri, a town of about 9,000 people just outside the region, a day after the army warned it would enter the town.
The Defence Ministry said government troops had retaken the town by midday, though the KRG disputed that.
Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
