by Hamza Mustafa | Nov 18, 2016 | Middle East
Baghdad- Iraqi government said on Thursday an agreement on the withdrawal of Kurdish forces from liberated areas of Mosul remained “steady and unchanged”. Iraq Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi’s office followed up with a statement on Kurdish Peshmerga forces having to...
by Said Abdul Razzak | Aug 23, 2016 | Middle East
Ankara – President of the Kurdistan Region, Masoud Barzani, will fly to Ankara on Tuesday and meet Turkish politicians. Barzani will meet Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Prime Minister Binali Yildrim, and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusolgu, According to...
by Sherzad Shekhani | Jun 26, 2013 | Middle East
Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—As the deadline for nominations for the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government [KRG] presidential election fast approaches, no Kurdistan political party or figure has thrown their hat into the ring. The KRG presidential elections are scheduled to...
by Soner Cagaptay | May 4, 2013 | Features
On April 25, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) announced that it would withdraw its militants from Turkish soil after more than four decades of fighting against Ankara, including carrying out terror attacks inside Turkey. The announcement follows recent news that...
by James Denselow | Apr 12, 2013 | The Majalla Magazine
The vast majority of global debate over the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq has focused on the rights and wrongs of the decision to go to war and questions over whether the beleaguered Iraqis are now better off than they were under Saddam. While war fatigue...
