Politics

The meeting of Kurdistan Region’s Council of Ministers, Oct. 13, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

KRG: Kurdish lawmakers in Baghdad must defend Kurdistan Region

Kurdistan Regional Government PM Masrour Barzani and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan PM Barzani discusses Kirkuk situation with Iraqi PM Kadhimi

Najwa Mam-Hmaedd Kakayi (KDP) and Ahlam Ramazan (PUK) were elected as Iraqi MPs (Photo: election campaign posters)

Kurdistan

For first time, two Kakayi women win two seats in Iraqi parliament

According to preliminary results, the biggest winner of Sunday's election was the movement of Shiite cleric and political maverick Muqtada al-Sadr. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye, AFP)

Iraq

Pro-Iran parties denounce 'scam' after Iraq election setback

An Iraqi army unit deployed in Kurdish neighborhood of Kirkuk poses for a photo, Oct. 12, 2021. (Photo: Submitted to Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Iraqi forces in Kirkuk raid Kurdish households, arrests nearly 50 youths for electoral celebration

KDP supporter attending KDP campaign rally in Erbil for the 2021 Iraqi parliamentary elections. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

KDP gains additional parliament seat following manual vote counting by IHEC

A man dips his finger in ink after voting at a polling station in Iraq's capital Baghdad during the early parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021. (Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

World

US congratulates Iraqi government on elections; reaffirms right of self-defense against pro-Iran militias

IHEC head Jalil Adnan speaks at a press conference in Baghdad, Oct. 11, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

Iraq’s electoral commission: Final results will be announced after appeals are resolved

Georges Dallemagne, head of Belgian parliament’s foreign affairs committee at the Kurdistan Region Parliament, Oct. 12, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

‘Kurdistan Region and Belgian parliaments discuss forming a joint committee’: Senior European official

Head of the European Parliament’s delegation Domenec Ruiz Devesa (left), Chief Observer of the European Union Election Observation Mission to Iraq Viola von Cramon (right), Oct. 10, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

Iraqi Election 2021: EU election observation mission releases its 'preliminary' results

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaks during a KDP campaign rally for the Iraqi elections in the kurdistan Region's Erbil, Oct. 5, 2021. (Photo: Sabr Dri)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani congratulates electoral success of 'Kurdish representatives' in Kirkuk

The Supreme Electoral Committee of the leading Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), October 2021. (Photo: KDP)

Iraq

‘We are very happy with election result’: Senior KDP official

In this screengrab provided by the Russian Defense Ministry press service, a Russian long range Tu-22M3 bomber carries out an air strike over Aleppo region of Syria on Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016. (Photo: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service p

Syria

Russian jets bomb Turkish-occupied zone: SOHR

Supporters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) celebrate party victory. October 10, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Safin HAMED)

Kurdistan

KDP will be ‘major party in formation of next Iraqi government’: Kurdish official

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh (Photo: Tasnim News Agency)

Iraq

Iran hopes for new unified Iraqi government: Foreign Ministry

Kurdistan Region’s Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani congratulates winning candidates in Iraqi election