The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.
"We also discussed the KRG’s plans to deliver 24/7 electricity in the next two years and ways to leverage UAE’s experience to ...
Syria faces major challenges, from rebuilding an economy and war-wrecked infrastructure to setting up a new constitution and ...
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The new Sunni leader has no template, as the century has been riddled with colonial rule, military rivalries, and then ...
So even before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi Kurdistan had acquired many of the attributes of independence, with an elected parliament, municipal councils, and a free press. What has ...
Syria’s new rulers kicked off a long-awaited national dialogue conference on Tuesday as a “rare historical opportunity” to ...
Baghdad regained full control of the deposit from the KRG in 2017 after a failed Kurdish independence referendum. BP then resumed its studies on the field, but in late 2019 it pulled out of the ...
The government in Ankara has jailed thousands of political opponents whom it says were involved in a failed 2016 coup attempt as well as others tied to the Kurdish independence movement.