A bedouin boy holds the lambs of Abu Mari, a livestock farmer who raises camels, goats, and sheep, in the village of Ghezlaniah, in the countryside of the capital Damascus, April 20, 2021. (Photo: Louai Beshara / AFP)

Syrian shepherds suffer with grazing lands a no-go zone

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Syria

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US airmen and Kurdish refugees unload food supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq. (Photo: US Air Force)

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Youth in the Kurdistan Region have flocked to the audio app Clubhouse as a safe place for open discussion and deeper understanding of social issues. (Photo: Marco Verch/Flickr/CC-BY 2.0)

Young Kurds embrace Clubhouse as a platform for open discussion

Culture Kurdistan

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US Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, who led Operation Provide Comfort, calls for unity among Kurdish parties

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Kurdistan to quarantine arrivals from India amid global-high COVID infections

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ISIS launches attack against Peshmerga forces in the vicinity of Kirkuk

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Kurdistan PM says ISIS still 'serious threat,' calls for security cooperation after attack near disputed territory

Economy

A worker stands in a gas field in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. (Photo: AFP)

Chinese firm Sinopec wins contract to develop Iraqi gas field: Beijing

2021/04/20 22:51

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) meets with the new head of Japan's consular office in Erbil, Nikhiro Arakawa, April 20, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

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2021/04/20 16:54

Flames emerge from the flare stacks at the West Qurna-1 oilfield, which is operated by ExxonMobil, near Basra, Iraq June 1, 2019. (Photo: REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani)

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2021/04/17 13:26

A TASNEE petrochemical company plant in Saudi Arabia, 2006. (Photo: Secl/Wikimedia Commons/CC-BY 3.0)

Saudi Aramco says $12.4 billion raised from oil pipeline stake sale

2021/04/10 08:10

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani spoke about the upcoming Kurdistan Region budget in an April 7, 2021 press conference. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

KRG prepares its budget following Iraq budget approval: PM Barzani

2021/04/07 14:48

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Opinion

James Cleverly

UK Minister James Cleverly on the 30th anniversary of the safe haven in Kurdistan

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Gary Kent

John Major, the quiet revolutionary who saved Kurdistanis from genocide and proved they have more friends than the mountains.

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Pope Francis, his links to Kurds, the region and a mission of peace with Islam

Peri-Khan Aqrawi-Whitcomb

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Devolution of power without a robust accountability system will weaken Kurdistan Region

Majida S. Ismael

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Modernization of higher education in Kurdistan

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Interview

Lt. Gen. Jay M. Garner (US Army, Ret.) stressed the need for Kurdish political unity. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

US Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, who led Operation Provide Comfort, calls for unity among Kurdish parties

“This newspaper has a great meaning for the whole Kurdish nation”

Interview with Sinam Khan Badirkhan about the newspaper 'Kurdistan'

Sport

Dilan Qadri poses for a phone on Hassan Bag Mountain in Soran city, northeastern of capital city Erbil, Jan. 22, 2020. (Photo: Dilan Qadri)

Growing numbers of Kurdish outdoorswomen defy social barriers

2021/03/23 10:33

Juventus’ Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo celebrates after opening the scoring during the Italian Super Cup football match between Juventus and Napoli on Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Miguel Medina)

Cristiano Ronaldo sets eyes on ‘many more years’ after breaking scoring record

2021/01/21 03:53

Iraq to issue stamp in honor of beloved footballer who died from COVID-19

2020/06/23 19:57

COVID-19

A follower of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holds a picture of him while waiting with others to receive a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, May 4, 2021. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq pushes vaccine rollout amid widespread apathy, distrust

2021/05/05 10:56

Iraqis arriving to Baghdad International Airport from India, May 4, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Airways)

Baghdad records 82 COVID-19 cases among Iraqis returning from India

2021/05/04 22:02

A curfew is enforced on the streets of Iraq. (Photo: Archive)

COVID-19: Iraq announces strict, 10-day curfew

2021/05/04 17:59

Kurdista Rregion

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150,888

Recovered

127,427

Active Case

19,440

Dead

4,021

Iraq

Infected

1,065,199

Recovered

942,046

Active Case

107,688

Dead

15,465

World

Infected

152,038,422

Recovered

129,328,584

Active Case

19,515,501

Dead

3,194,337

Lifestyle

Life style

PHOTOS: A glance at wildlife in the Kurdistan Region's Garmiyan

2020/08/18 20:03

Life style

PHOTOS: Tea shop in Kurdistan Region’s Sulaimani dates back nearly five decades

2020/01/18 15:19

Life style

PHOTOS: Erbil holds candlelight vigil for assassinated Iraqi security expert

2020/07/14 11:16

Culture

Members of a book club meet to review a novel at a book store in Erbil, the capital of Kurdistan Region, April 9, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed / AFP)

In Iraqi Kurdistan, book clubs and science fiction offer 'escape'

2021/04/25 10:00

Culture

Young Kurds embrace Clubhouse as a platform for open discussion

2021/04/24 09:49

History

“This newspaper has a great meaning for the whole Kurdish nation”

2021/04/22 08:51

Photo Story

With the pandemic keeping them from Lalish, Yezidis bring the New Year home

2021/04/14 12:57

Members of the Kurdistan Region's Yezidi community celebrate the new year in Ba’adre, Duhok province, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg / Kurdistan 24)

PHOTOS: Mandeans in Iraq celebrate five-day ‘feast of world creation'

2021/03/19 12:08

Followers of the Mandaeism religion gather near the Shatt Al-Arab river, in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on March 18, 2021, to mark the holiday Eid Al-Khalqeh. (Photo: Hussein FALEH / AFP)

PHOTOS: Man lives with seven snakes in Sulaimani

2021/01/14 12:35

Kaiwan Kamaran pictured with his snakes. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Dana Hama Gharib)

PHOTOS: Students return to in-person schooling across Kurdistan Region

2021/02/07 12:13