Kurdish restrictions on the movement of goods are harming the recovery of Iraq's Yazidi minority, which was targeted for genocide by the Daesh group, Human Rights Watch said Sunday.
It said restrictions imposed by the autonomous Kurdish government (...)
Kurdish forces are in full control of Iraq's oil-rich city of Kirkuk after the federal army abandoned its bases there, a Kurdish military spokesman said on Thursday, according to Reuters.
"The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of peshmerga," (...)
Iraq filed for arbitration against Turkey on Friday after European markets bought the first load of oil to be carried by pipeline from Iraqi Kurdistan, Reuters reported.
The request was filed with the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce (...)
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki visited the Kurdistan region on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, according to a report of Reuters.
Al-Maliki's last official trip to Kurdistan was in 2010, when the "Arbil Agreement" was struck, (...)
Turkish warplanes on Saturday bombed sites in northern Iraq, wounding one civilian and damaging property, Iraqi officials said.
A man was wounded in the remote village of Sidakan in Arbil province located near the borders with Turkey and Iran, (...)
Iraqi Kurds voted on Saturday in elections expected to keep President Masoud Barzani in power in Kurdistan but unlikely to erase voter concerns about corruption or end a bitter feud with Baghdad over land and oil.
After the closing of polls ballots (...)
Iraqi Kurds voted on
Saturday in elections expected to keep President Masoud Barzani
in power in Kurdistan, Reuters reported.
Polls opened at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) in the largely autonomous
northern region, and will close at 6 p.m. (1500 GMT), (...)
Voter turnout was high in parliamentary and
presidential elections in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish
region Saturday, with authorities allowing an additional two hours
for voting before polls closed at 8 pm (1600 GMT), according to (...)
Heavy floods in the Choman District in northern Iraq left at least three people dead and more than 100 houses destroyed, DPA quoted Choman District Leader Abdul Wahid Giwani as saying today.
The floods, which took place from late Wednesday through (...)
Iraq's Kurdish autonomous
region has agreed to withdraw troops from a neighboring Iraqi
province and hand over security in the area to forces of the
central government, a Kurdish official said.
Kurdish officials have struck an agreement with the (...)
Turkish warplanes launched
intensive bombing raids on Kurdish rebel targets in northern
Iraq overnight but there were no reports of any casualties, a
rebel spokesman said on Friday.
The air strikes began at 11.30 p.m. (2130 GMT) and lasted
for (...)
The 13th session of the Arab Parliamentarian Federation's meeting kicked off in Arbil, Iraq at an invitation of the Iraqi Parliament.
Nineteen parliamentary delegations take part in the three-day event.
Saudi Arabia's Shoura Council's five-member (...)
Iraqis living in and around Baghdad have
increasingly been fleeing the violence to seek sanctuary in the
Kurdish autonomous region in the relatively quieter north, Arbil's
governor told the press on Sunday, according to dpa.
"The improvement (...)
South Korean troops assumed military responsibility for northeast Iraq on Friday at a ceremony in the Kurdish capital Arbil, and the Korean commander pledged his forces would bring stability to the region.
Soldiers from the Korean "Zaitoun" unit (...)
