FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 5, 2016 photo, an army commander informs Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, left, on a Turkey-Iraq border map, in Cukurca, Turkey. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry has summoned Turkeys’ ambassador to Baghdad over “provocative” comments by Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim about the planned operation to dislodge Islamic State militants from the city of Mosul. (Prime Ministry Press Service, Pool photo via AP, File) (Associated Press)BAGHDAD — Iraq has requested an emergency U.N. Security Council session over the presence of Turkish troops in northern Iraq, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday, a development that highlights increasing tension between the two neighbors. Iraq has demanded a Turkish withdrawal but Ankara has ignored the call. ___Associated Press writers Maya Alleruzzo in Baghdad and Suzan Fraser in Ankara, Turkey, contributed to this report.

Source: Washington Post October 06, 2016 07:40 UTC