KDP Politburo member: Our cooperation with Baghdad will continue
Jaafar Ibrahim Eminki, a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) Politburo, said Iraq’s State Organization for Marketing Oil (SOMO) will supervise the Kurdistan Region’s oil income.
The Iraqi Oil Ministry said the ministry had met with a delegation from the Kurdistan Region’s in Baghdad to discuss new mechanism for the Region's oil exports.
Turkey is expected to pay $1.4bn to Iraq after losing the Kurdistan oil dispute case at an international arbitration court, Middle East Eye said on Sunday (March 26).
An Iraqi delegation will travel to Turkey to negotiate an agreement on oil exports following the international arbitration court ruling in Baghdad’s favor over the dispute with Ankara on Kurdistan’s oil.
The Kurdistan Region’s presidency has set November 18, 2023 as Election Day.
The US dollar to Iraqi dinar exchange rates was down in the Kurdistan Region’s markets on Sunday (March 26) compared to the previous day.
Crude oil prices were stable on Sunday (March 26) compared to the previous day.
Mashkhal Kaulosy, a writer, political commentator and a member of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), has called for the US consul-general in Erbil to be replaced.
At least 19 militants were killed in US airstrikes on military bases housing Iranian militias in eastern Syria, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) on Saturday.
Six soldiers and a contractor injured in attacks on US military bases in Syria were transferred to Iraq for treatment, the US military said on Saturday (March 25).
Iraq has ceased crude oil exports from the Kurdistan Region after winning an arbitration case against Turkey, Reuters said on Saturday (March 25).
Iraq has become the first Middle Eastern nation and the 49th party to join the UN Water Convention, the UN Economic Commission for Europe said on Friday (March 24).
Crude oil prices were down on Saturday (March 25) compared to the previous day.
A German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday the latest talks between Iran and the E3 -- Germany, France, UK -- did not include efforts to resume stalled talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal.
The US dollar to Iraqi dinar exchange rates was stable in the Kurdistan Region’s markets on Saturday (March 25) compared to the previous day.
The US launched air strikes in Syria on Thursday night (March 23) in retaliation for a drone attack that killed a US contractor and wounded six others, Reuters said.
At least 82 people were injured as a magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan on Friday (March 24), local authorities said.
Crude oil prices were down on Friday (March 24) compared to the previous day.
Five people were killed and two others injured in three separate car accidents in Sulaimani over the past 24 hours.
The Kurdistan Region’s Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday (March 22) it will pursue penalties against doctors who seek to delay or advance the date of a child’s birth.
Crude oil prices were up on Thursday (March 23) compared to the previous day.
The President of the New Generation Movement, Shaswar Abdulwahid, held a Newroz event for the members of the diplomatic community in Baghdad on Wednesday (March 22).
Turkey will continue to protect all of its water resources, which are the “most strategic asset” of the next century, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday (March 22).
The death toll from Tuesday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake that jolted most of Pakistan, as well as neighboring India and Afghanistan, has risen to 12, officials said on Wednesday (August 22).
A 40-year-old man drowned in Darbandikhan lake on Tuesday (March 21), and the body has still not been found, Sulaimani police said.
Crude oil prices were up on Wednesday (March 22) compared to the previous day.
The US Department of State said in its annual report released on Tuesday (March 21) that the Kurdistan Region’s security forces detained journalists, activists, and protesters randomly and without arrest warrants in 2022.
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday (March 21) the body of Shervan Kobani, the commander of the Anti-Terror Units (YAT), and the remains of eight other SDF members have been returned to Syria from the Kurdistan Region.
Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Recep Tayyip Erdogan will discuss bilateral ties, regional and international issues.
Residents of of the Kurdish town of Jinderes in Aleppo’s Afrin district protested the presence of a Turkish-backed armed faction on Tuesday (March 21) after four civilians were killed in a clash with the group the previous evening.
