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People walk past the site of bomb attacks in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (100 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, November 24, 2013. A car bomb and a suicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 54 in northern Iraq on Saturday, police and medical sources said, in the latest of a wave of attacks in crowded public places. The bombings took place in Tuz Khurmato, a region which both the central government and autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan claim as theirs. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ – Tags: CIVIL UNREST)
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Iraqi Kurdish leader Massud Barzani (C) gives a press conference with Diyarbakir’s Mayor Osman Baydemir (3rd-R), Turkish deputy Leyla Zana (2nd-L) on November 17, 2013, in Diyarbakir. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the leader of Iraq’s autonomous north Massud Barzani to his country’s own Kurdish-dominated territory for the first time on November 16, in a visit designed to kickstart a stalled peace process. AFP PHOTO /MEHMET ENGIN
Syrian Kurds fail to agree on Geneva II
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—Negotiations between Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani and delegations from the Kurdish National Council (KNC) and the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) have failed to reach agreement on a formula for attending the...Caption:
Members of Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) are seen on a military truck that belonged to the Islamist rebels after capturing it near Ras al-Ain, in the province of Hasakah November 6, 2013 (REUTERS/Stringer)
Syria: Kurdish party denies ties to government
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Syria-based Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) denied accusations of having strong ties with the Syrian government, and told Asharq Al-Awsat that it is still determined to “liberate the Kurdish parts of Syria and establish a federation...Caption:
Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy Hussain Al-Shahristani (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz in Baghdad December 1, 2013 (REUTERS/Ahmed Saad)
Turkey oil deal with Kurdistan must go through Baghdad: Iraqi oil minister
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat—Iraq’s central government rejected attempts to include it in a trilateral committee to discuss oil exports from the Kurdistan region through Turkey on Monday, following the signing of an export agreement between the Kurdistan Regional...Caption:
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Nechervan Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government, pose for photographers before a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, on November 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Kayhan Ozer, Turkish Prime Minister’s Press Office)