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Kurdistan24
January 27, 2018
ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – A young man on Saturday committed suicide on the historic Delal Bridge in the Dohuk Province's city of Zakho. The man, later identified as a 23-year-old, threatened to take his life as others on the bridge pleaded with him not to. Footage on social media shows theÃâà...
Rudaw
October 31, 2017
IBRAHIM KHALIL, Kurdistan Region – The chief of the KRG-controlled Ibrahim Khalil land border crossing with Turkey has dismissed media reports that a ... the chief of staff of the Iraqi army, used the border crossing when he visited the Turkish side, and has now returned back to Iraq using the same gate.
Rudaw
October 29, 2017
Some 10,000 people were forced to flee their houses west of the Tigris River to Zakho due to mounted assaults launched by Iran-backed Hashd ... Local officials say there are only seven organizations present in Zakho and that due to flight bans it is difficult to bring in more organizations to assist theÃâà...
Rudaw
September 29, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has refused to hand over its land border gates to the authorities of the Iraqi federal ... A flight ban on international flights to and from the Kurdistan Region will take effect on Friday but domestics flights as well as military will not beÃâà...
Rudaw
September 14, 2017
ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region — Thousands of people in the city of Zakho in the northwest of the Kurdistan Region and President Masoud Barzani attended a rally in favor of the independence referendum, as the Kurdish president insisted that the vote will take place on its stated time of “September 25.”
Kurdistan24
August 16, 2017
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) - The Kurdish translation of a Dutch novel recounting the lost, albeit recent history of Jews in Kurdistan and Iraq met ... taken her two years to discover throughout the region's towns and cities, from Khanaqin in the south to Kirkuk, Sulaimani, Erbil, Alqosh, Amedi and Zaxo in the north.
Kurdistan24
July 24, 2017
ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Zakho is one of the many cities in the Kurdistan Region where people visit tourist destinations in the area, but some are complaining about the bad roads. Hundreds of thousands of travelers from southern Iraq visit the Kurdistan Region annually to avoid Iraq'sÃâà...
Rudaw
February 27, 2016
ZAXO, Kurdistan Region— The number of visitors to Turkey from neighboring Kurdistan region has declined dramatically after Turkey introduced a new set of ... Although not all Kurdish travelers visited Turkey as migrants, it is estimated that 37,000 people from Iraq's Kurdish territories have left for EuropeÃâà...
Rudaw
March 30, 2014
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Kurdish members of the Iraqi parliament differ in their views over the autonomous Kurdistan Region's independence from Iraq: Some warn independence should not be entered in haste and advocate careful study and planning. Others believe everything depends on the degreeÃâà...
