Politics

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a video conference in Istanbul, July 28, 2020. (Photo: Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Kurdistan

Erdogan threatens anti-PKK operation in Iraq’s disputed Sinjar

Former Army general Lloyd Austin was confirmed on Friday as the next US Secretary of Defense. (Photo: AFP/Rod Lamkey Jr.)

USA

Lloyd Austin confirmed as US Secretary of Defense

Snow falls on Sardasht displacement camp on Sinjar (Shingal) Mountain, Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

Yezidis protest Iraq’s decision to cut off aid to displacement camp

Selahattin Demirtas, former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), in Istanbul, Sept. 4, 2016. (Photo: Reuters/Osman Orsal)

Turkey

European parliament calls for release of jailed Kurdish political leader in Turkey

Masoud Barzani, former president of the Kurdistan Region (right), shakes hands with then-US Vice President Joe Biden in Erbil, April 28, 2016. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Senior Kurdistan Region leaders congratulate newly-inaugurated US President Joe Biden

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) and the newly-inaugurated President of the United States, Joe Biden. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

PM Masrour Barzani seeks 'to strengthen' KRG-US partnership as he congratulates Joe Biden on inauguration

US President Joe Biden signs a series of orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, after being sworn in at the US Capitol on Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Jim Watson)

USA

Joe Biden—‘Good Friend’ of Masoud Barzani—becomes America’s 46th President

Three years after Turkey's cross-border attack on the northern Syrian city of Afrin, large numbers of displaced Kurds continue to live in camps. (Photo: Archive)

Syria

Three years after Turkey’s attack on Afrin, Syrian Kurds call for UN investigation

Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaks during a meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives in the Kurdistan Region, Jan. 20, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region wants ‘best relations’ with Baghdad, PM Barzani tells foreign diplomats

Ongoing Iraqi demonstrations that began in October 2019 led to the downfall of the previous administration. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Iraq postpones upcoming national election by 4 months

Masoud Barzani (Right) leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Jan. 19th, 2021. (Photo: Barzani Headquarter)

Kurdistan

Top Kurdistan Region officials discuss security with Turkish defense minister in Erbil

Around 99 displaced Syrians left the Al Hol camp on Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo: Internal Security Forces)

Syria

More Syrian IDPs leave Al Hol camp in effort to empty facility

Damage is seen on a street after the Christmas 2020 explosion in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo: Metro Nashville Police Department/AFP)

USA

Nashville bombing: Unanswered questions, unrecognized dangers

KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) during his meeting with Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Jan. 19, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

KRG PM, Turkish defense minister reiterate importance of 'implementing Sinjar Agreement'

Anti-Terror Units (YAT) of the Kurdish-led SDF. (Photo: Archive)

Syria

Kurdish-led SDF arrests senior ISIS leader in northeast Syria

The KRG Peshmerga Minister, Shorish Ismael, walks alongside his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar (left) at the Kurdistan Region's Erbil International Airport, Jan. 18, 2021. (Photo: Turkish Defense Ministry)

Kurdistan

Turkish defense minister visits Kurdistan Region to meet officials