Turkey calls on Iraqi Kurdistan to pay compensation as oil dispute continues
Turkey is demanding that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) pay the compensation Turkey owes Iraq for exporting oil from the ...
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Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government slammed over press freedom as TV presenter arrested
International organisations have raised the alarm over the deteriorating state of press freedom in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) ...
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PKK’s Murat Karayılan issues severe warning: Kurdish partition could escalate conflict
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) executive committee member Murat Karayılan has accused the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the ruling party in ...
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Kurdistan Region’s press freedom under scrutiny: Calls grow for Şêrwanî’s release
In response to the recent sentencing of renowned Kurdish journalist Şêrwan Şêrwanî to 4 years in prison in the Kurdistan ...
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Tensions run high between Iraqi Kurdistan’s ruling parties following Erbil meeting
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the two main parties within the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), ...
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Barzani meets with Erdoğan as Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil woes continue
Iraqi Kurdistan’s Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara ...
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Political dispute hampers reconstruction of war-torn Sinjar district in northern Iraq: report
Efforts to rebuild the heavily damaged Sinjar (Şengal) district in northern Iraq, which suffered extensive destruction during the fight against ...
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Stranded and resilient: The plight of Makhmour Refugee Camp
Huseyin Kara, a resident of the Makhmour (Mexmûr) Refugee Camp, provided insight into the ongoing situation in the region and ...
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Exiled Kurdish journalist honoured at CPJ Press Freedom Awards
Exiled Iraqi Kurdish journalist Niyaz Abdullah, renowned for her unwavering reporting on the Yazidis and her advocacy for the release ...
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KDP can’t protect Yezidis if it doesn’t investigate itself
Fréderike Geerdink Yezidi students from the university in Duhok in the Kurdistan Region in Iraq have been reluctant to go ...
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