Tag: Kurdistan

IRAQ - US oil firm Chevron said on Monday it had resumed drilling operations in Iraq's Kurdistan region. "Chevron can confirm that it has resumed its activities in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and we resumed drilling operations in our Sarta 3 field," spokeswoman Sally Jones...

RUSSIA - Syria’s main Kurdish groups have not received a final invite to a peace congress scheduled to take place in Russia next week and will not attend while a Turkish assault on Afrin continues, a senior Kurdish official said on Thursday, as cited...

The United States continues to provide military support to the self-defense forces of the Syrian Kurds (YPG), Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said. Earlier, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that US President Donald Trump assured Erdogan by telephone that he had instructed to stop the...

Turkey sent a column of military equipment to the border with Syria after the call to surrender, which on Saturday, President Tayyip Erdogan appealed to the Kurdish forces of the People's Self-Defense Forces (SNA). This was reported by the Anatolian agency. According to him, there...

Iran on Tuesday reopened the last two border crossings with Iraqi Kurdistan closed in response to the referendum of independence held by the region and rejected by Baghdad and neighboring countries, officials said. The Iranian consulate in Erbil, capital of the autonomous region of Iraq...

US Defense Secretary Jim Matisse warned the Syrian regime on Friday against launching any attack on Syria's "Kurdish Democratic Forces" backed by Washington, which President Bashar al-Assad has recently accused of treason. "We have a dividing line" between areas controlled by US allies in the...

Leading Kurdish opposition movement Gorran has withdrawn its ministers from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its member Yousif Mohamed has resigned as parliament speaker, party sources told Reuters on Wednesday. At least three people were killed and more than 80 wounded on Tuesday...

Iraqi forces are preparing a fresh attack on Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) of northern Iraq said on Monday, as reported by Reuters. A military spokesman in Baghdad denied that Iraqi forces were planning to resume an attack they began mid-October...

Turkish military said that more than 80 Kurds were killed in an airstrike in northern Iraq. It should be noted that an air operation is being conducted in this region against the military party of the PKK banned in Turkey. As reported by Reuters, as...

A Kurdish official said Washington would make an "amendment" to the handover of weapons to Syria's democratic forces, the Arab-Kurdish alliance that is fighting the Islamic state with the support of Washington. However, he stressed that there were no changes in Washington's policy towards these...

Kurdish troops are ready to resist the Turkish army against the backdrop of the strengthening of armed forces on the Syrian-Turkish border. This was stated by the representative of the Kurdish People's Self-Defense Forces (YPG) Nuri Mahmud and co-chairman of the executive council of the...

Turkish warplanes bombarded overnight on Thursday the border areas of Kurdistan Region, allegedly targeting the positions belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party. The bombardment is focused on the rural areas of Amedi district in Duhok Province, said Mahmoud Niheli, an official from the area. The residents...

More than 180,000 civilians, mostly Kurds, have been displaced by the conflict between the Iraqi central government and the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, humanitarian organizations said on Thursday, as reported by Reuters.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday evening announced that government forces had secured all parts of Iraq “disputed” between Baghdad and the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), as reported by Iraqi news media outlets. At a press conference held in the capital, al-Abadi also accused certain...

The leader of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region says he will step down from his post. In a letter read out to Kurdish lawmakers at a closed-door session of the region’s parliament, Masoud Barzani announced that he will no longer exercise his functions after November the...

The President of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan Masoud Barzani on Sunday told a closed-door session of parliament that he was stepping down from his post on November 1, a local media reported. Iraqi Kurdish leader Barzani confirms intention to step down “I refuse to continue...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the suspension of military operations in the north of the country for 24 hours, according to the statement published on Twitter on the press service of the Iraqi prime minister. The decision was made to deploy the Iraqi army...

Iraqi government forces have launched a military operation to retake the Rawa and al-Qaim districts of Anbar province from Islamic State (IS, ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, Kurdish NRT News reported citing Anbar Police Commander, Hadi Kasar. The international coalition and Sunni tribes are assisting the campaign, according...

The Kurdistan Region Security Council (KRSC) has reported shelling on Peshmerga positions and advances by Iraqi troops and militias from Zummar, northwest of Mosul, according to Rudaw news. Earlier, Kurdish officials said Iraq had deployed tanks, artillery and armored vehicles to the area, apparently preparing...

The Kurdistan Regional Government has suspended the results of the Kurdish independence referendum to give open dialogue a chance with Baghdad on the outstanding issues between the two governments on the basis of the Iraqi constitution, reported Rudaw. https://twitter.com/VOP_Today/status/922952043077296131 According to the news agency, statement published...