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Female Kurdish deputies are pictured outside the Kurdistan parliament building in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on November 6, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED)

Kurdistan Islamic Group in talks to join KDP-led government

by Mohamed Zangeneh | Nov 22, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Kurdistan Islamic Group is in talks with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) to form a government in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region following September’s parliamentary elections, the group’s leader, Ali Bapir, told Asharq Al-Awsat...

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Vehicles drive past a giant poster featuring Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who is also the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) running as a candidate in the Kurdistan’s parliamentary elections on September 18, 2013 in Iraq’s northern city of Sulaimaniyah. (AFP/ PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)

Iraq: Talabani health in the spot-light again

by Sherzad Shekhani | Oct 23, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The health of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was a subject of some speculation once more this week after Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party spokesman, Azad Jindiyani, said that Talabani would remain head of the party “as long as he is...

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Some thousands of supporters demonstrate waving various PKK flags and images of jailed Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan, in southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir, Turkey, Thursday, March 21, 2013. (AP Photo)

Conflicting Reports of PKK Withdrawal from Turkey

by Sherzad Shekhani | Mar 27, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Turkish military yesterday denied reports that a first batch of PKK fighters had withdrawn from Turkish territory, thereby implementing part of the peace initiative that was launched last week by jailed party leader Abdullah Ocalan....

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Massoud Barzani (R), president of the Kurdish regional government, and Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani talk while attending a gathering of their supporters before the regional parliament election in Arbil, 310 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, June 24, 2009.
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War of Words Escalates Between Kurdish Political Camps

by Sherzad Shekhani | Mar 21, 2013 | Middle East

Erbil, Asharq Al-Awsat—A war of words between different Kurdish political camps has escalated against the backdrop of a lack of cash flow into Kurdistan government banks, Asharq Al-Awsat has learnt. The leadership of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by...