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In a seven-minute video message broadcast on media close to the militants, Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan ...
By bnm Gulf bureau The foreign-calculated sums are stark. Iraq's budget deficit will more than double from 4.2% of GDP this ...
The unnamed Kurd told an immigration tribunal he had been 'mistreated, humiliated and abused' as a result of his disability.
Turkey’s pro-Kurdish DEM Party says the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) will take a first formal step toward disarmament on ...
A U.S. envoy says that Syria’s central government and the Kurds remain at odds over plans on merging forces after the latest ...
ANKARA, Turkey -- The jailed leader of a Kurdish militant group renewed Wednesday a call for his fighters to lay down their arms, days before a symbolic disarmament ceremony is expected to take place ...
In the first footage of him to be released publicly in 25 years, Abdullah Ocalan said the P.K.K. insurgency against Turkey ...
More than 30 percent of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region now has 24-hour state electricity, authorities said Thursday, with ...
Kurdistan Region’s $110B gas deals spark controversy with Baghdad – analysis The energy deals come as Kurdistan is trying to bolster its security and autonomy in Iraq. By SETH J. FRANTZMAN ...
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is piling pressure on Iraq to allow Kurdish oil exports to restart or face sanctions alongside Iran, eight sources with direct knowledge of the matter ...
Baghdad’s Push To End Iraqi Kurdistan Independence By Simon Watkins - Oct 28, 2024, 6:00 PM CDT ...
The most the Kurds got was a no-fly zone, in 1991, over the northern third of Iraq, where the vast majority of Kurds live, following the first Gulf War, and enforced by the US, Great Britain and ...