by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 21, 2017 | Middle East
Erbil- President Masoud Barzani, the leader of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan, has called a parliamentary and presidential election for November which could help ease a long-running political row as the Kurds push for independence from Baghdad. The...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 14, 2016 | Middle East
Denied their own state in reality, Iraq’s Kurds have declared independence, albeit in cyber space. The autonomous Kurdistan Region now has its own Top-Level Domain, a websites in Kurdistan or in the Kurdish language can choose the .krd suffix at the end of their...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 19, 2013 | Opinion
In 1990, three months before Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Iraq, North Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh surprised everyone by announcing his agreement with South Yemen leader Ali Salem al-Beidh to integrate the two regimes and unify. Optimism reigned...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 18, 2013 | World
Istanbul, Reuters—Kurdish politicians were ferried to a Turkish prison island on Monday where Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan is expected to issue a ceasefire call in a conflict that has cost 40,000 lives and battered Turkey’s economy over three decades....
