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Barzani attends a news conference in Erbil. Reuters

Kirkuk Joins Independence Referendum… ‘Kurdish Brexit’ Won’t Be Easy

by Ghassan Charbel | Sep 7, 2017 | Middle East

Kirkuk- Iraq’s oil-producing region of Kirkuk is cursed for having both wealth and diversity. It lies on oil wells and on the spines of frightened identities. Its fate has been poisoned by Arab-Kurdish relations for decades and was the first cause behind costly wars....

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ISIS militants (Photo: AFP)

ISIS Members from Iraq, Syria Tell their Stories

by Ghassan Charbel | Aug 31, 2017 | Middle East

Erbil- I had a strange sensation while I was sitting in the counter-terrorism headquarters in Erbil, amidst hundreds of ISIS men distributed in the prison chambers and cells. In the morning I discussed with Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani the future...

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Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Masoud Barzani. (Reuters)

Barzani: Maliki’s Crime against Kurdish Region Worse than Saddam’s Anfal Operation

by Ghassan Charbel | Aug 30, 2017 | Interviews

Irbil – President of the Kurdish Iraqi Region Masoud Barzani expressed his disappointment and “bitterness” towards former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and Baghdad’s treatment of Kurds during his time in office. Barzani told Asharq Al-Awsat on Wednesday that...

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Iraq’s Kurdistan region’s President Massoud Barzani receives French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves le Drian and French Defence Minister Florence Parly in Erbil, Iraq, August 26, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

France to Support Stabilizing Post-ISIS Iraq

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 26, 2017 | Middle East

France will help reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Iraq as it emerges from the war against ISIS, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday after talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad. France is a main partner in the US-led coalition...

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Kurdish Peshmerga troops participate in an intensive security deployment against ISIS militants in Khazer in 2014. REUTERS photo

International Coalition Supports Erbil to Unify, Develop Peshmerga

by Dalshad Abdullah | May 8, 2017 | Middle East

Erbil– A team of advisors from the US, British and German ministries of defense, in cooperation with the government in Kurdistan, are seeking to establish a unified and developed Kurdish military force within the ranks of the Peshmerga. A statement issued on Sunday by...