Politics

Kurdistan Region’s Council of Ministers meeting, June 5, 2022. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region Council of Ministers meeting discusses finances, tourism, and environment

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (Left) during meeting with the British Ambassador to Iraq, Mark Bryson-Richardson, June 5, 2022. (Photo: Prime Minister's Media Office)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region wants to strengthen relations with UK: PM Barzani tells British Ambassador

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani and the new Romanian ambassador to Iraq during a meeting in Erbil. (Photo: Prime Minister's Media Office

Kurdistan

PM Barzani and Romanian Ambassador discuss expanding opportunities in all fields

The Special Adviser and Head of UNITAD Christian Ritscheris reading UNITAD's report to the UN's Security Council (Photo: UNITAD)

Europe

Denmark providing long-term funding for 'key areas' of UNITAD work on ISIS justice

Syrian Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Faisal Moqdad, speaks at a press conference in the capital Damascus on July 3, 2017 (Photo: AFP)

Syria

Syrian government says Turkish threats are a violation of Syrian sovereignty

Leaders of Kurdish political parties in a meeting with Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Erbil, Kurdistan Region, May 26, 2022. (Photo: UNAMI)

Kurdistan

Kurdish political parties to meet with President of Kurdistan and head of UNAMI to resolve dispute over election laws

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani (Right) with Marina Sereni, Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, June. 4, 2022. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region PM meets the Italian Deputy Foreign Minister

Turkish forces on the outskirts of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northwestern Syria. (Photo: Associated Press)

Syria

55 civilians kidnapped or arrested in Afrin in April: SOHR

The KNC recently met with Ethan Goldrich, the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs (Photo: US Embassy Syria).

Syria

Syrian Kurdish National Council meets senior US official in Geneva

Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian foreign ministry, during a press briefing in Moscow. (Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry/Sputnik via AFP)

Middle East

Russia urges Turkey to refrain from actions in northeast Syria

Italian Deputy Foreign Minister Marina Sereni (left) after she landed at Erbil International Airport, June 3, 2022. (Photo: KRG Ministry of Transport and Communications)

Kurdistan

Italian deputy foreign minister arrives in Erbil

Anti-government protesters set fire and close streets during protests in Baghdad, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2019. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq

Iraqi activists suffering in 'environment of fear': UN

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani during the meeting. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region PM chairs a special meeting at Ministry of Interior

The Greek-flagged oil tanker Prudent Warrior, background, is seen as it sails past Istanbul, Turkey, April 19, 2019. Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard seized two Greek oil tankers on May 27, 2022 (Photo: Dursun Çam via AP)

World

Iran's seizure of Greek tankers underscores Russian-Iranian collaboration on oil smuggling

A child plays on the road in Khanke Camp in Dohuk, where displaced Yezidi families fled violent clashes in Sinjar in May 2022 (Photo: Ahmed Kaka/NRC)

Iraq

Sinjar agreement should be implemented soon: ICG

Nadine Maenza, the former Chair of the official US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), met with the KNC in northeast Syria (Photo: Nadine Maenza)

Syria

Former US religious freedom chair meets with Syrian Kurdish KNC opposition leadership