An Iraqi security analyst says the presence of operatives working for the Israeli regime’s spy agency, Mossad, in the country’s northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region poses grave threats to Iraq’s national security.

Iraq and the Kurdistan Region signed an oil agreement aimed at regulating exports, boosting revenue sharing Baghdad and Erbil.

The Pentagon has announced that the United States and its partners are scaling back their military mission in Iraq.

Heavy clashes have erupted in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region over the arrest of an opposition figure, leaving three security forces killed and 19 others wounded in the northern city of Sulaymaniyah.

Members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militant group have begun to lay down machine guns, sniper rifles after they ended their decades-long armed struggle against the Turkish government.

A group of PKK fighters is set to hand over their weapons in the Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah on Friday.

In a significant development, the Kurdish militant group PKK has disbanded and formally renounced violence, marking the end of more than 40 years of insurgency against Turkey.