A worker from South Oil Company is pictured on a field in Nasiriyah, Oct. 30, 2015. (Photo: Haider Mohammed Ali/AFP)

Iraq earns over $7 billion from oil sales in February, says marketing company

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PM Barzani condemns the killing of four Kurdish civilians in Afrin

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Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) shaking hands with health workers at Erbil Maternity Teaching Hospital, March 7, 2023. (Photo: KRG)

PM Barzani attends unveiling of new electronic payment project

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Biden administration following a containment strategy to confine war to Ukraine: Security Expert

"US and NATO will continue to provide humanitarian and lethal assistance to the people of Ukraine."

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A war of attrition in Ukraine could ‘sink Russia in a quagmire’: USIP MEANA Director

“Defeating the Russians will require a completely different level of support that not all Western countries seem to envisage at this stage unless Russia moves on to directly provoke a NATO member state.”

Sport

Turkish group attacks Kurdish football team

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A Kurdish man skis in Choman town in the northeastern Erbil province in Kurdistan Region, Feb. 24, 2023. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

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Iraqi stadium security team members carry an injured football fan into an emergency area at the Basra International Stadium following a stampede, Jan. 19, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Stampede kills one, wounds 60 others in Basra ahead of Gulf Cup final

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Health

Iraqi farmer Saadoun Roumi injects a dose of the foot-and-mouth vaccine to his ailing buffalo at his farm in the village of Badush, northwest of the city of Mosul, Feb. 7, 2023. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)

Foot-and-mouth variant hits Iraq buffaloes, threatening livelihoods

2023/02/09 08:25

The exterior of Nanakali Hospital in Erbil, a cancer treatment center in the Kurdistan Region's capital, Feb. 5, 2023. (Photo: Handout/Nanakali Hospital Facebook page)

Kurdistan Region records over 9,000 cancer cases in 2022

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Iraqi medical workers are pictured at the coronavirus ward of Al-Shifa Hospital in the capital Baghdad, Feb. 20, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad al-Ruabye/AFP)

Covid rages in Iraq as vaccinations lag

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Kurdistan Region

Infected

371,832

Recovered

388,327

Active Case

6,748

Dead

6,757

Iraq

Infected

2,073,835

Recovered

2,032,310

Active Case

17,883

Dead

23,642

World

Infected

257,619,000

Recovered

232,213,454

Active Case

19,828,426

Dead

5,148,317

Lifestyle

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Assi El Hallani (right) speaking to Kurdistan 24 upon his arrival to the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil and Rahma Riad (left), Feb. 12, 2022 (Photo: Combined photo by Kurdistan 24)

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2022/02/13 12:02

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Nightlife in the Kurdistan Region capital Erbil. (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)

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Music

The singer Shahram Sardar poses for a photo. (Photo: Handout)

Kurdish singer to release his latest album ‘soon’

2021/11/09 11:21

Culture

A number of men hold lit torches as they climb on a mountain in the Kurdistan Region Akre town on the eve of Kurdish New Year Newroz, March 20, 2022. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Diplomats from 80 countries celebrating Newroz in Kurdistan Region

2023/03/18 12:07

Culture

A young artist performs during the third edition of the Western Music Festival in Baghdad, March 10, 2023. (Photo: Murtaja Lateef/AFP)

PHOTOS: Baghdad hosts western-style music festival

2023/03/11 17:11

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A music performance held at Newroz and Freedom Festival in 2022 in Erbil. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)

Erbil hosts cultural festival to mark Newroz, Uprising

2023/03/11 11:49

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PHOTOS: Baghdad hosts western-style music festival

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PHOTOS: Kurdistan Region celebrates national dress day

2023/03/09 15:36

Arab, Kurdish, Assyrian and Turkmen Students are lining up in their traditional clothes, marking the Kurdistan Region's National Clothing Day, March 9, 2023. (Photo: Shayma Bayiz/Kurdistan 24)

PHOTOS: Reconstruction efforts ongoing at Mosul airport

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An aerial picture shows reconstruction works underway at the airport of Iraq's city of Mosul, Feb. 25, 2023. (Photo: Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP)

PHOTOS: Erbil’s snowy mountains become skiing hub

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