Health

An Iraqi woman walks past a billboard advertising Baghdad's Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe COVID-19 cases, April 25, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region offers assistance to victims of Baghdad coronavirus hospital fire

Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Spokesperson Jutyar Adil speaks to reporters at a press conference in Erbil, April 11, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

COVID-19: KRG cancels 'Thursday holiday,' continues travel ban to Iraqi provinces outside Kurdistan

Iraqi health authorities receive the first doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Baghdad International Airport, April 11, 2021. (Photo: Iraqi Health Ministry)

Kurdistan

Nearly 50,000 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses arrive in Iraq

Iraq carried out 29,899 coronavirus tests over the past day, recording 4,994 positive results. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

COVID-19: Nearly 5,000 new cases in Iraq brings national total to 80,000

Aram Balatayi, 41, served as the spokesperson for the KDP bloc in the Iraqi Council of Representatives before contracting the coronavirus in December 2020. (Photo: Archive)

Kurdistan

Kurdish member of Iraqi parliament dies during COVID-19 hospitalization

Iraqi workers bury the dead in a graveyard dedicated to coronavirus victims. (Photo: Archive)

Iraq

COVID-19: Kurdistan records 64 new cases; Iraq announces 'red leap'

Iraqi Health Minister Hassan al-Tamimi speaks at a press conference. (Photo: Ministry of Health and Environment)

Iraq

COVID-19: Iraqi health minister warns of 'very large wave' due to lack of mask-wearing

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced on Thursday, Wold Cancer Day, that it has allocated some $60 million to cancer treatment centers over the past year only. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

VIDEO: Kurdistan Region spent $60 million on cancer treatment in past year

A medic checks the temperature of a man inside a health isolation center on the Syrian-Turkish borders. (Photo: AP/Anas Alkharboutli)

Syria

HRW fears Damascus won’t distribute COVID-19 vaccine to Syria’s northeast

Kurdistan Region’s Minister of Health, Saman Barzinji, speaks at Kurdistan 24, Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

COVID-19: KRG calls on public to avoid travel abroad, for those in UK to be wary of new strain

A healthcare worker in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil prepares to give an injection to a COVID-19 patient, Nov. 3, 2020. (Photo: AFP/Safen Hamed)

Kurdistan

COVID-19: Kurdistan Region total infections top 98,000 cases

Middle East minorities lead COVID vaccine development: what it says about them and others

middle east

Middle East minorities lead COVID vaccine development: what it says about them and others

WHO 'impressed' with Kurdistan Region's coronavirus response

kurdistan

WHO 'impressed' with Kurdistan Region's coronavirus response

Kurdistan health minister says COVID-19 remains threat despite decline in cases

kurdistan

Kurdistan health minister says COVID-19 remains threat despite decline in cases

COVID-19: Kurdistan Region's total fatalities nearing 3,000

kurdistan

COVID-19: Kurdistan Region's total fatalities nearing 3,000

COVID-19: Iraq records 2,349 cases; WHO adds to warnings of upcoming spike

middle east

COVID-19: Iraq records 2,349 cases; WHO adds to warnings of upcoming spike