The volunteer medical team of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) paid a visit to Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on Tuesday to study the need to implement voluntary medical programs aimed at providing (...)
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has delivered 25 tonnes of dates to Iraq's Kurdistan as a gift from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Deputy Consul General of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Erbil Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Shamrani (...)
The Prime Minister of Kurdistan Region, Masrour Barzani, met in Erbil today with the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Yves Le Drian.
During the meeting, they discussed the latest developments of Iraq and the region in general, in (...)
Eng. Saleh Al-Solami, Secretary General of the Saudi Export Development Authority (Saudi Exports) inaugurated the Saudi pavilion at the 11th edition of the annual Erbil International Building Exhibition in Iraq being held from April 22 to 25. The (...)
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers on Monday elected an interim speaker of parliament, an assembly key to regional stability, although the Kurds' second largest party boycotted the vote due to a rift between the main political forces in Iraq's Kurdistan (...)
Iraqi forces battled their way along two streets that meet in the heart of Mosul's Old City on Friday, and said they aimed to open routes for civilians to flee Daesh (so-called IS last stand there.
US-trained urban warfare units are leading the (...)
Advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah met here today with Masrur Masoud Barzani, advisor at Kurdistan Enclave Security and Chairman of the Board (...)
President of Iraqi Kurdistan Masoud Barzani met here today with Advisor at the Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah.
During the meeting, they discussed the (...)
Iraqi forces pressed gains against Daesh (so-called IS) militants in eastern Mosul on Wednesday and have retaken two more districts, security sources said, with thousands more civilians fleeing the fighting.
An elite Interior Ministry unit had (...)
The declining effectiveness of Daesh attacks against Iraqi forces in eastern Mosul suggests the militants are starting to run out of resources with the campaign in its third month, a US general told Reuters.
Since the US-backed offensive began on (...)
Seven-year-old Anas lies in a hospital bed in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, his little body wrapped in bandages following four surgeries to remove shrapnel that shredded his intestines.
He is considered lucky for being alive. Two of his brothers (...)
Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by Daesh, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said.
Kurdish peshmerga (...)
The battle for Mosul will be a make-or-break moment for Iraq that could split the country along ethnic and sectarian lines, said the former regional governor who has assembled a force which will take part in the campaign.
Iraq has been preparing for (...)
Iraqi troops advanced against Daesh south of Mosul on Sunday as the US-led coalition intensifies its campaign against the militants on multiple fronts across their self-proclaimed caliphate.
Officers involved in the operation said Iraqi forces had (...)
The U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) is working on contingency plans that up to 700,000 people could be displaced by a planned offensive to retake Iraq's second largest city from IS, according to its head in Iraq.
Iraqi forces, with help from a (...)
In the photo that Aziza produces on her mobile phone, her 14-year-old daughter Layla is wearing a pink satin dress and smiling meekly at the camera.
"This was her engagement party," said 35-year-old Aziza. "(Her fiance) was 22 years old. His family (...)
Prime Minister of Iraq's Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani received here on Sunday Saudi Consul in Iraq Abdel Moneim Bin Abdulrahman Al-Mahmood.
During the meeting, Barzani expressed his happiness for the opening of the Consulate General of the (...)
Prime Minister of Iraq Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani met here today with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
During the meeting, they discussed the developments of the war on ISIS as well as the status of displaced Iraqis in the (...)
The High Commission of United Nations for Refugees ( UNHCR) organized on Monday and Tuesday a field press tour to the reception centers for asylum seekers and displaced persons camps inside Iraq and refugees from Syria in Erbil Province in Kurdistan (...)
The representative of the High Commission of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iraq Bruno Gedo has expressed his grateful for the support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the operations of humanitarian organizations in Iraq, noting that (...)
A U.S. air strike in Afghanistan has killed a high-ranking al Qaeda operational commander, the U.S. military said on Friday, according to Reuters.
The U.S. military named the target of the strike as Abu Khalil al-Sudani, saying he was killed in a (...)
U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter arrived on an unannounced visit on Friday in Erbil, capital of Iraq's Kurdistan region whose forces have emerged as one of America's strongest partners in the fight against ISIS, Reuters reported.
Carter was (...)
A Canadian special forces soldier was killed and three others wounded in northern Iraq on Friday after Kurdish peshmerga fighters mistook them for ISIS militants, UPI cited the Canadian government as announcing.
Canada's Defense Minister Jason (...)
Oil production in the Kurdish region of Iraq remains unaffected by violence and exports are expected to rise, UPI quoted the Kurdish government as saying Saturday.
A number of oil companies operating in the area, from Genel Energy to U.S. major (...)
AlQa'dah 15, 1434, Sep 21, 2013, SPA -- Polls closed Saturday in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region and vote counting began after an estimated 65 per
cent of the registered voters showed up to elect a new parliament, according to dpa.
Lines of (...)
