Politics

Members of Iraq's Kurdish Peshmerga security forces take part in early voting for the parliamentary elections in Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan

KRG calls on security forces to facilitate works of local, international journalists during voting process

Female members of Kurdish Peshmerga security forces cast their votes for the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan

Iraq’s UN mission stresses importance of intimidation-free election

Members of Zeravani forces are pictured awaiting the opening of voting centers in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Oct. 8, 2021. (Photo: Renas A. Saeed / Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Iraq Election 2021: Special voting begins across country

Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel, Head of the EU’s Election Observation Mission, speaks at a press conference in Erbil, Sept. 18, 2021. (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

With Iraqi election just days away, head of EU observer mission visits Baghdad, Basra

Masoud Barzani, leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Masoud Barzani sends campaign message to people of Kurdistan Region, Iraq's disputed territories

Main entrance to the Iraqi Parliament building. (Photo: Iraqi Parliament Website)

Iraq

Iraqi parliament dissolved in runup to election

Basak Demirtas was interviewed by the Turkish Fox channel on Wednesday (Photo: Fox TV screenshot)

Turkey

Turkish state agency launches investigation into Basak Demirtas interview

Mohammed al-Halbussi hails from the province of Anbar and is hoping to be re-elected in the October 10 poll (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

Fast-rising politician pushes rebirth of war-scarred Iraqi city

Officials of Iraq's electoral commission undergo a polling day simulation to test run its systems ahead of the parliamentary elections in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, Sept. 22, 2021. (Photo: Shwan Mohammed/AFP )

Iraq

Prime Minister Barzani welcomes joint statement by Iraq’s international partners on upcoming elections

Women look after children at the sprawling al-Hol displacement camp in northeastern Syria, Oct. 17, 2019 (AFP/Delil Souleiman)

Syria

German, Danish ISIS-affiliated women and children repatriated from Syria

An Iraqi soldier stands guard in Sinjar (Shingal), in front of a wall with PKK-themed graffiti. (Photo: AP)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region warns that PKK is tightening its grip on Sinjar, urges international action

The ICRC said 31 soldiers were repatriated from both sides of the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s. (Photo: ICRC)

Iraq

Red Cross facilitates exchange of soldiers' remains killed on both sides of Iran-Iraq War

The Yezidis' holy temple of Lalish, located in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani: KRG 'will remain a true and solid defender' of Yezidis

Kabarto displacement camp in Kurdistan Region. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Erbil says new Iraqi order will make it difficult for those living in displacement camps to vote in election

Cars pass Baghdad's Shorja Market. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Twelve countries, including US, endorse Iraqi elections; Remind Iraqis of all they have done

Supporters of Iraq's Fatah alliance -- which held the second-biggest bloc in parliament -- attend an election rally in Baghdad (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

In Iraq vote, big blocs lurk behind ‘independents’