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The Iraqi Kurdistan region's ambition to heat European homes with its natural gas could promote the region from a pawn to a queen in the chess game that is...
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Reviews
May 21, 2022
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Ramona Wadi
Alex Poppe's collection of short stories is a turbulent itinerary of the marginalised. At face value, the observations laid out in Jinwar and Other Stories tend to border on...
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A missile attack targeted an oil refinery in Iraq's northern city of Erbil on Sunday causing a fire in one of its main tanks that was later brought under...
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Tying a camera trap around a tree trunk on Bamo Mountain in Iraq's Kurdistan region, brothers Bahez and Nabaz Farooq Ali hope to capture footage of the Persian leopard,...
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The Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese company, Power China, to build four new dams without...
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Iraq's Kurdish region has never been a threat to anyone, the head of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said on Sunday, Anadolu Agency reported. In a statement marking the Newroz holiday,...
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The Supreme Judicial Council of northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) on Monday called for a complaint to be filed with the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on the...
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The presidency of Iraq's Kurdistan region rejected a decision issued by the Federal Court in Baghdad on its oil and gas activities, deeming it "unacceptable", Anadolu reported. In a statement issued...
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Turkiye's Defence Chief met, on Friday, with Iraq's Foreign Minister at the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Anadolu News Agency reports. National Defence Minister, Hulusi Akar and Fuad Hussein...
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Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, on Wednesday, held talks with the Head of northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Masrour Barzani, in the capital, Doha, Anadolu News Agency...
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Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets, including training camps, shelters and ammunition storage areas in Iraq and northern Syria, Reuters reported the Turkish Defence Ministry saying today. The air strikes are...
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An endangered leopard has been captured in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region after it was caught in a shepherd's trap. The endangered Persian Leopard needed to have its hind leg...
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At least 16 bodies of Iraqi Kurdish migrants who drowned in November when their dinghy deflated while they tried to cross the English Channel were returned on Sunday to...
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Recent floods and torrential rains which swept across 15 areas in Erbil have caused 21 billion Iraqi dinars (about $15 million) in losses, provisional Governor of the Kurdistan region,...
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Iranian authorities yesterday executed Kurdish activist Haydar Kurbani after convicted him of several charges including murder, and affiliation to an armed group, in reference to the is the Kurdistan...
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At least eight people, including a girl, have died as a result of torrential rains in Erbil province in northern Iraq, an official said on Friday, Anadolu Agency reported. In a...
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Sweden remains an active partner to Syria's Kurds, Foreign Minister Ann Linde said yesterday following a meeting with officials in the region. Linde met with co-President of the Kurdish...
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The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq said on Tuesday that the US has pledged to continue supporting the region's security forces known as Peshmerga, as well as the...
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Explosive devices from the 1980s dotted throughout the Kurdish border region have claimed 16 lives and wounded 30 people in the last 10 years
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The UAE and the autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) are to explore enhancing ties. The decision was announced following discussions between the UAE Consul-General to the KRI, Ahmed...
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Poland's Prime Minister, on Thursday, held a phone conversation with the Prime Minister of the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), discussing the migrant crisis at the Belarus border, Anadolu...
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Iraqi military and Kurdish Peshmerga forces have launched a joint security campaign against Daesh in the areas without security forces, the Iraqi Ministry of Defence announced on Friday. The...
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Iraq must disarm Iranian Kurd "terrorists" and expel them from the Kurdistan region, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader declared yesterday. "The increasing movements of terrorist groups in the...
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Turkey's main opposition party has visited Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region and met with officials there, leading many to suggest that it is seeking to win more votes from the...
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Daesh militants killed 10 Iraqi policemen and wounded four during an overnight attack on a guard post near the city of Kirkuk, police sources said on Sunday, reports Reuters....
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The head of northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, held talks on Sunday with French President Emmanuel Macron on bilateral relations and the upcoming Iraqi elections, reports...
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The Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) in north-east Syria are to open an office in Geneva, the Kurdish militia has announced. According to Turkey's Daily Sabah, the YPG is set...
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Turkey's top prosecutor on Monday refiled an indictment seeking dissolution of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), Anadolu Agency reported. The indictment calls HDP an undemocratic party that colludes with the...
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An officer was killed in a clash as part of a domestic anti-terror operation in the eastern Agri province, the Interior Ministry said early Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency. The...
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The Kurdistan Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) in northern Iraq yesterday denied reports that it had particated in the assassination of the former Iranian Quds Force Commander, Qasem Soleimani. Soleimani and...
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Residents of Kista village in northern Iraqi Kurdistan's Dohuk governorate have allegedly fled their homes due to Turkish operations in the area, a local Iraqi news website reported on Friday. The...
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The Interior Ministry of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq is holding Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants responsible for the bomb blast that wounded a Peshmerga soldier...