Iraq Asks UN Security Council: Demand Turkish Troops Leave

Iraq is asking the U.N. Security Council to demand Turkey immediately and unconditionally pull its troops out of northern Iraq. "This is considered a flagrant violation of the principles of the U.N. Charter and a violation of Iraqi territorial integrity and sovereignty of the state of Iraq," Baghdad's leaders wrote in a letter to the council and seen by the Reuters news agency. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi already appealed to the Security Council during a...

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