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Early this week, the 6+6 committee, formed jointly by Libya's House of Representative based in the eastern city of Benghazi and the High Council of the State based in...
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The Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has lost more than $1.5 billion since oil exports to Turkiye were stopped, according to a report published on Tuesday by the...
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A child was injured when armed supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group assaulted Turkish citizens in southern France as they were trying to vote on Monday,...
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Fidaa Abdul Jalil was on route to a private English lesson in Kobani when she went missing
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The United States' Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin today arrived in Iraq on an unannounced visit to discuss continued defence cooperation and to reaffirm Washington's partnership with Baghdad. After beginning...
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January 18, 2023
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Muhammad Hussein
Turkiye has surprised many policymakers and analysts over the past decade with its diplomatic prominence, soft power projection and hard power in the form of drones and other advances...
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Iran has called on Iraq to disarm Kurdish groups in Kurdistan, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said yesterday. Speaking to a Kurdish TV channel, Hussein said: "Iran officially asked...
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After the 2014 Daesh genocide which left them reeling from the effects of mass abduction and rape, Yazidi refugee girls are rebuilding their lives with the help of boxing,...
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Sweden has extradited a member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to Turkiye, as part of Stockholm's efforts to gain Ankara's approval for accession into the NATO alliance....
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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed group that helped defeat Daesh in Syria, announced on Friday that it had stopped all joint counter-terrorism operations with the US and...
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Iran welcomed, on Monday, the Iraqi federal government's decision to deploy troops in the border area with the Iraqi Kurdistan region, where Iranian Kurdish opponents are stationed. "We heard...
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Amina Kakapavi, a Swedish lawmaker of Iranian Kurdish origin, has slammed the new Swedish government's announcement that it is distancing itself from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), Anadolu...
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Article
August 11, 2022
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Muhammad Hussein
When it was revealed last month that Israel had requested the United States to prevent a new Turkish military operation in northern Syria, it served as a necessary reminder...
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The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence said yesterday that the members of the network linked to Israel whose arrests were announced last week, belong to a banned Kurdish faction, and...
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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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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...