Politics

Iranian Kurdish physicist Ebrahim Karimi (left) won the 2020 Herzberg Medal for his research. (Photo: Structured Quantum Optics Group)s

Kurdistan

Kurd wins top physics prize in Canada

Women and children walk within al-Hol displacement camp in Syria’s Hasakah province, April 1, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ali Hashisho)

Kurdistan

Unknown gunmen continue to assassinate Iraqis in Syrian refugee camp

Dutch Consul Hans Akerboom plants the first twenty trees donated to the Kurdistan Region in the province of Sulaimani, Dec. 23, 2020. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Wladimir van Wilgenburg)

Kurdistan

Netherlands donates 2,000 trees to boost Kurdistan’s environmental efforts

The Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil during the lockdown. (Photo: AFP/Safin Hamed)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region bans travel to/from nine countries over new COVID-19 strain

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, special representative of the UN in Iraq, during a virtual conference. (Photo: UNAMI)

Iraq

New year will not be ‘easy ride’ for Iraq as it faces ‘multiple storms at once’: UNAMI

A convoy of US military vehicles arrives near the Kurdistan Region town of Bardarash in the Dohuk governorate after withdrawing from northern Syria on Oct. 21, 2019. (Photo: AFP/Safin Hamed)

Middle East

US: We will remain in Syria, Iraq

Kurdistan Regional Government’s Council of Ministers, Dec. 23, 2020. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan cabinet calls on UN to take greater role in Erbil-Baghdad talks

The Dutch Consul General in Erbil, Hans Akerboom (right), visited the Yezidi leadership on Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Yezidi leadership appreciates Dutch support for Yezidi community

Democratic Union Party (PYD) spokesperson Sama Baghdash. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Syrian Kurdish dialogue to continue: PYD spokesperson

Kurdistan Region Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani gives a press conference in Baghdad, Dec. 22, 2020. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

KRG, Baghdad reach deal on 2021 budget law: Deputy PM

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Turkey

European court calls for ‘immediate release’ of Kurdish official jailed by Turkey for 4 years

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) receives Abdul-Ghani al-Asadi, head of the Iraqi National Security Agency. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Iraqi, Kurdistan officials stress the importance of militias leaving Sinjar

Iraq’s Council of Ministers. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

Iraq shutters land borders, bans travel amid new COVID-19 strain

Kurdish politician Leyla Guven was arrested on Monday night per order of a Diyarbakir court. (Photo: ANF)

Kurdistan

Pro-Kurdish party condemns Turkey's 22-year jail sentence for female politician

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Kurdistan

Secretary Pompeo thanks PM Barzani for ‘steadfast partnership’

The Dutch Consulate General on Monday hosted a signing-ceremony for the Iraq Horticulture Development Program (IHD) in Erbil. (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Wladimir van Wilgenburg)

Kurdistan

Dutch-funded program signs agreement to boost agriculture sector in Kurdistan Region