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Kurdish families pass through a checkpoint as they return to Kirkuk last Tuesday. Photo: Marwan Ibrahim/AFP

Barzani Condemns Court Order ‘Targeting’ his Deputy amid Kurdish Displacement

by Asharq Al-Awsat and Heba El Koudsy | Oct 20, 2017 | Middle East

Riyadh, Baghdad, Washington – The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud made on Thursday a telephone call to Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, during which they reviewed bilateral relations between both countries in various...

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Iraqi Kurdish President Masoud Barzani sits with Kirkuk Governor Najmaldin Karim (R) during his visit in Kirkuk, Iraq September 12, 2017. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed

Scrutinizing The Kurdish Referendum

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Oct 11, 2017 | Opinion

It was really significant that the coffin of Jalal Talebani, the ex-Iraqi president, was wrapped by the national flag of Kurdistan rather the flag of Iraq, during his funeral in his hometown As-Suleimanyyah. What we are now witnessing is a virtual ‘divorce’ between...

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Official results of the independence referendum are expected by Tuesday [Thaier Al-Sudani/Reuters]

Iraqi Kurds Vote amid Tight Geographic Dragnet

by Saeed Abdel Razek and Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 25, 2017 | Middle East

Ankara, Baghdad, Irbil, London- While residents of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq began showing up on Monday at polling stations to cast their votes in the referendum on independence, a geographic dragnet is expected to be tightened around the region. President of...

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Kurdistan Region’s independence referendum/AFP

Iraq: Last Hours Race Between Referendum,Threats

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2017 | Middle East

Irbil, Baghdad, Ankara- The Kurdistan Region of Iraq closed on Saturday the door in the face of regional and international parties calling for the postponement of the referendum on independence and asserted it would proceed with the vote as scheduled on Monday. As...

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Peshmerga forces stand behind rocks at a site of an attack by ISIS militants in Kirkuk, Iraq. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed

Car Bomb Kills One, Wounds 10 in Disputed Iraqi Oil City

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 16, 2017 | Middle East

A car bomb killed one person and injured ten in Kirkuk, an Iraqi oil city where local Kurdish authorities plan to hold a referendum on independence despite opposition from the central government and the region’s non-Kurdish population. According to Reuters, the...