Elections

Masrour Barzani (Right), Kurdistan Region’s Prime Minister in a meeting with Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Spt. 7, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region is a 'force of stability' in Middle East: EU Official

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi meets with EU official Josep Borrell, Sept. 6, 2021. (Photo: Prime Minister’s office)

Iraq

European Union pledges commitment to upcoming Iraqi elections

KDP followers are pictured during an election rally in Erbil, capital of Kurdistan Region, April 29, 2018. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

KDP calls on Iraqi parties to run in upcoming election, welcomes Sadr reversal on boycott

Iraqi males show their ink-stained fingers after casting their votes at a polling station in 2010. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Electoral commission says internally displaced Iraqis will be able to vote in October election

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq is pictured inside Kurdistan 24 news studio during her visit to the Kurdish media network, August 17, 2021. (Photo: Biryar Bakhtiyar/Kurdistan 24)

Iraq

Boycott of Iraqi election 'not an effective strategy' for parties: UN envoy

The disputed northern Iraqi city of Sinjar (Shingal). (Photo: Kurdistan 24/Levi Clancy)

Kurdistan

Two candidates in Iraqi election are backed by PKK: Peshmerga commander

Iraqi guitarist Mohammed, 23, plays as he sits with his friends at a coffee shop in the Karrada district of the capital Baghdad, August 6, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

Scooters and espresso, Baghdad's rebels without a future

A man votes in Kurdistan Region’s Sulaimani province. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Iraqi electoral commission office in Duhok prepares for national vote in October

Photo: Archive

Kurdistan

Sadr advisor stands by boycott of Iraqi general elections

KRG PM Barzani (right) during his meeting with Haitham al-Jabouri, the head of Iraq's Kafa party, August 1, 2021. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan PM receives head of Iraq’s Kafaa party, talk elections

Ayad Allawi served as Iraq's premier from 2004-2005. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)

Iraq

Ex Iraqi PM’s electoral list withdraws from October elections

Bashar al-Assad arrived at his swearing-in ceremony in Damascus, Syria on July 17, 2021. Assad was reelected for a fourth term as president in a May election deemed neither

Syria

Syria's Assad sworn in for fourth presidential term

A mask-clad youth walks in front of a large poster of Iraq's populist Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, in Sadr City, east of the capital Baghdad, July 15, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP)

Iraq

Sadr dissolves movement's political office after withdrawal from Iraqi elections

An Iraqi woman votes in a previous national election. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

Iraqi commission insists that national elections will take place on time in October

Muqtada al-Sadr, Iraq's top Shia leader, said on July 15, 2021 that he will not participate in planned Oct. 2021 legislative elections. (Photo: AFP)

Iraq

Influential Iraqi cleric Sadr says his coalition will not run in national elections

Khamis al-Khanjar, the head of the Mashrou’ al-Arabi and Adhim Coalition (L) meets Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. (Photo: KRG)

Iraq

Kurdistan PM, Iraqi politician stress 'transparent, fair' elections as vote nears