-
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Wednesday demanded the federal government of Baghdad to compensate the victims of the Anfal genocide that claimed the lives of...
-
The United States did not make any political promises to the Kurdish militia the Peoples' Protection Unit (YPG) despite backing it throughout the Syrian conflict, according to former US...
-
An Iraqi MP has said that the federal government in Baghdad and the northern Kurdistan Region have been unable to resolve their disagreements over the country's federal budget for...
-
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq on Thursday extended the suspension of face-to-face education in schools and universities across the region to avoid a second wave of...
-
The Ministry of Finance and Economy in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq yesterday suspended the salaries of more than 10,000 people who receive multiple payments from...
-
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Wednesday that Turkey should immediately release prominent Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas, and said the justification for his years in prison was...
-
A protester was shot dead during demonstrations against Kurdish political parties in the northern, Kurdish-run region of Iraq on Monday after several days of unrest, local medical officials and...
-
The UK's Ambassador to Baghdad Stephen Hickey announced on Wednesday the UK's support for the agreement of the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Region, regarding the status of the...
-
Kurdish-led authorities said on Monday up to 15,000 Syrians could be moved out of the overcrowded Al-Hawl camp in northeast Syria which holds displaced people and families of Daesh fighters
-
The President of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, Nechirvan Barzani, has given his full backing to the federal government's fight against the attacks on foreign missions and interests in Iraq,...
-
The Turkish Ministry of Interior said Saturday it had arrested a "terrorist" from the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in the southern province of Adana who prepared to carry...
-
The autonomously-ruled Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq is experiencing a deepening economic crisis due to disagreements between the regional and central governments over the management of the oil wealth...
-
The federal government in Baghdad reached an agreement with Kurdish MPs in parliament regarding the salary payments of Kurdistan's employees, Anadolu reported yesterday. According to the spokesman of Kurdistan's Regional Government,...
-
An official Kurdish delegation arrived yesterday in the Iraqi capital Baghdad to discuss "oil output". "The delegation, led by the Kurdistan government's Finance Minister, Awat Sheikh Janab, will discuss...
-
The Kurdish-led administration in Syria's northeast said on Friday that the World Health Organisation had found the area's first case of coronavirus earlier this month after samples were tested...
-
March 21, 2020
|
Anjuman Rahman
"Doctor, why is it that people can be so evil? Why did they kill my mother and father? Why did they torture me like that? Doctor, why are humans...
-
Article
March 10, 2020
|
Zeidon Alkinani
The Kurds are one of the population groups that are native to Mesopotamia, numbering between 25 and 35 million people. They mostly live in south-east Turkey, north-east Syria, northern...
-
The former President of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government Masoud Barzani yesterday thanked Kurdish political parties for uniting and refusing to grant confidence in the government of Prime Minister-designate Mohammed...
-
The government of Iraq and the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan have reached an agreement on Erbil's contribution to the 2020 federal budget, state news agency INA reported on Wednesday....
-
The Kurdish-led administration that runs much of northeastern Syria is planning to organise a local tribunal to try Daesh fighters held captive in the region, a representative of its...
-
Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday met Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG). The closed-door meeting took place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum...
-
Article
October 11, 2019
|
Yvonne Ridley
As Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan rolled out the military offensive called "Operation Peace Spring" on his country's southern border with Syria, the big surprise was not the invasion...
-
Syria's deputy foreign minister Faisal Maqdad on Thursday attacked US-backed Kurdish led forces saying they had betrayed their country and accused them of a separatist agenda that gave Turkey...
-
A US representative for the political arm of Kurdish-led fighters in northeast Syria on Thursday repeated a call to impose a no-fly zone amid a Turkish offensive in the...
-
The Syrian regime said today that it would welcome Kurds back into its fold after they were "tossed aside" by the US, Al-Manar reported. Kurds in northern Syria have...
-
Will you be getting your ticket?