US to send Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Peshmerga Joint Brigades: health official
Raparin Police spokesperson Shorsh Ismael said on Saturday (April 17) that six people who are suspected of involvement in the murder of a man in Chwarqurna sub-district have handed themselves to the police.
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Deputy Minister of Health Rahel Faraidun said on Friday (April 17) that the US is expected to send 31,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to the Kurdistan Region, which will be used to vaccinate members of the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs’ Joint Brigades.
Talks on Iran's nuclear programme aimed at salvaging a 2015 nuclear deal were set to resume Saturday (April 17), a day after Tehran said it had started producing uranium at 60 percent purity.
A member of the Komala of the Toilers of Kurdistan has been missing in Sulaimani for the last four days, his family told NRT on Saturday (April 17).
Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday (April 17) it recorded 6,552 new coronavirus infections and 33 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) said on Friday (April 16) that it invited 75 Arab and foreign embassies and international organizations to monitor the parliamentary elections scheduled for October 10.
The global Covid-19 death toll passed three million on Saturday (April 17) as the pandemic continues to speed up despite vaccination campaigns, leading countries like India to impose new lockdowns to fight spiralling infection numbers.
Head of Sulaimani Food Directorate Shawkat Muhammed said on Saturday (April 17) that residents in the Kurdistan Region will receive cooking oil and sugar during the holy month of Ramadan as part of their food ration from Iraq’s federal government.
The US dollars to the Iraqi dinar (IQD) exchange rates was up on the Kurdistan Region’s currency markets on Saturday (April 17).
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Health announced on Saturday (April 17) it had officially recorded 645 new cases of coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours.
One week after the first shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Kurdistan Region, a vaccination center at Erbil’s Rizgari Hospital closed on Saturday (April 17) because it ran out of doses amid high demand for that particular vaccine.
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Deputy Minister of Peshmerga Affairs Sarbast Lazgin said on Friday (April 16) that the use of cover names by militias under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) helps them to obscure their involvement in attacks on the Kurdistan Region.
Crude oil prices were down on Saturday (April 17) compared with the previous day.
A man killed his wife in Erbil on Friday (April 16), making her at least the fourth woman killed in the Kurdistan Region in less than a month.
US President Joe Biden said Friday (April 16) it was too early to know whether indirect talks underway with Iran would succeed in reviving a nuclear accord.
Cyprus hosted a meeting Friday (April 16) of top diplomats from Israel and the UAE, as well as Greece, for talks they said reflected the "changing face" of the Middle East.
The US, UK, France, Germany, and Italy released a joint statement on Friday (April 17) condemning the Wednesday night attacks on Erbil Airbase and a Turkish military facility near Bashiqa.
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Health announced on Friday (April 16) it had officially recorded 952 new cases of coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours.
A Raparin Police spokesperson Shorsh Ismael said that a man was shot and wounded in Chwarqurna sub-district on Friday (April 16).
Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Rewaz Fayaq has criticized a controversial six-year prison sentence handed down against five activists and journalists from the Badinan area, saying that no one would be doubting the court’s decision if they had been treated fairly.
Turkish warplanes twice bombed targets in Duhok governorate’s Dinarat sub-district, hearing areas near Guahana and Mimber villges on Friday (April 16), with no casualties immediately reported
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday (April 16) robustly defended his foreign minister after he traded barbs in an unusually public spat with his Greek counterpart.
Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Friday (April 16) it recorded 7,561 new coronavirus infections and 30 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani commemorated on Friday (April 16) the 34th anniversary of the chemical attack on Balisan and Sheikh Wasan by saying that every part of Kurdistan had witnessed atrocities.
Iran has begun producing uranium at 60 percent purity and is making nine grams per hour, the head of the Islamic republic's atomic agency said on Friday (April 16).
Food safety officials said on Friday (April 16) that they had seized 600 kilograms (1,323 pounds) of expired dates in Bazian sub-district.
Iraq’s Ministry of Interior said on Friday (April 16) that the security forces in Nineveh governorate discovered approximately $ 1.5 million in cash that Islamic State (ISIS) militants hid in a house in Mosul when the group controlled the city and abandoned when it was recaptured.
The US dollars to the Iraqi dinar (IQD) exchange rates was up on the Kurdistan Region’s currency markets on Friday (April 16).
Crude oil prices were up on Friday (April 16) compared with the previous day.
The UN special envoy to Yemen urged its warring parties Thursday (April 15) to accept a proposed peace plan, telling the Security Council that the blueprint has international backing.
Head of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Environmental Board Abdulrahman Sadiq said on Thursday (April 15) that the Board will open an office in Halabja governorate following approval by the Council of Ministers.
Iraq’s Ministry of Interior appointed Brigadier-General Kawa Gharib Abdulrahman as the new Kirkuk police director on Thursday (April 15), taking over the position from Major General Ali Kamal.
Lebanon's energy minister on Thursday (April 15) blamed the country's chronic fuel shortages on smugglers exporting subsidised supplies into war-torn Syria.
Diplomats said Thursday (April 15) that the latest talks in Vienna to save the 2015 Iran nuclear deal were positive despite fresh tensions over Tehran's announcement that it was preparing to ramp up uranium enrichment in response to an attack on a facility it blamed on arch-foe Israel.
The foreign ministers of Greece and Turkey on Thursday (April 15) clashed on a wide range of issues during a volatile press conference at the end of their first meeting in over a year.
Turkish warplanes bombed targets in Duhok governorate's Kani Masi sub-district on Thursday (April 15), with no casualties immediately reported.
The trial opened in Berlin on Thursday (April 15) of an Iraqi man accused of causing a series of motorway crashes in an Islamist-inspired episode of religious mania.
A fire burned significant sections of Erbil’s Saidawa bazaar on Thursday evening (April 15).
Eight Egyptian architects have won an international competition for the reconstruction of the historic Al-Nouri Mosque complex in Mosul, Iraq, selection organiser UNESCO said Thursday (April 15).
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s advisor for electoral affairs Abdul Hussein al-Hindawi said on Thursday (April 15) that early parliamentary elections scheduled for October 10 will held on the same day in all governorates and will not be delayed in any regions.
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Ministry of Health announced on Thursday (April 15) it had officially recorded 810 new cases of coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours.
The Sirwan River has largely dried up because of a lack of rain this winter and Iranian dam construction upstream, causing concern that there will be a severe drought in parts of the Kurdistan Region this summer.
Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday (April 15) it recorded 7,810 new coronavirus infections and 49 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
Syria's central bank devalued the pound on Thursday (April 15), bringing the currency's official exchange rate closer to the black market rate, two days after the government sacked its governor.
Taqtaq Police Chief Harem Dlshad said on Thursday (April 15) that a man killed his 23-year-old daughter in Kani Lala village before dumping her body in the Little Zab River.
An explosion hit Baghdad’s Sadr City neighborhood on Thursday (April 15), killing an estimated fifteen people and wounding 35 others according to initial estimates.
The remains of Khaled al-Assaad, a Syrian archaeologist beheaded by Islamic State (ISIS) group jihadists, have yet to be recovered, his son told AFP on Wednesday (April 14).
Syria on Wednesday (April 14) angrily rejected a global watchdog's report that found it had used chemical weapons on a rebel-held town in 2018, dismissing the charge as "fabricated".
The US dollars to the Iraqi dinar (IQD) exchange rates was down on the Kurdistan Region’s currency markets on Thursday (April 15). $100 was at 147,950 Iraqi d
An explosion at a scrap metal processing facility in Sulaimani governorate’s Tanjaro area killed one worker on Thursday morning (April 15).
Before arriving in Madrid, Muhammed, Ayham, Okba and Moussa honed their skills as journalists during Syria's bloody civil war and now they have opened Spain's first refugee-led digital magazine Thursday (April 15).
Crude oil prices were up on Thursday (April 15) compared with the previous day.
Erbil Airbase and a Turkish military facility near Bashiqa in Nineveh governorate were hit in closely-timed attacks on Wednesday night (April 14).
Head of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Department of Foreign Relations Safeen Dizayee on Wednesday (April 14) sought to downplay the notion that foreign diplomats were putting pressure on Erbil for its controversial prosecution of five journalists and activists from the Badinan area, amid continuing alarm about the deteriorating state of press freedom in the Region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday (April 14) slammed Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi for calling him a "dictator", saying it was vulgar.
European powers on Wednesday (April 14) expressed "grave concern" over Iran's move to boost uranium enrichment to 60 percent in response to what Tehran says was an attack by Israel against a key nuclear facility.
Sulaimani Mayor Awat Muhammad said that an historical site was discovered in one of the oldest parts of the city on Wednesday (April 14).
Iraq’s Ministry of Health said on Wednesday (April 14) it recorded 7,979 new coronavirus infections and 40 deaths in the country over the past 24 hours.
The suspects in an alleged plot to destabilise Jordan will go trial in the kingdom's State Security Court, state television reported Wednesday (April 14).
Kurdistan Islamic Union (KIU) lawmaker Abubakir Haladani said during a parliamentary debate on Wednesday (April 14) that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) denied a request by Jalamord village in Chamchamal district, where nearly 400 people were killed during the genocidal Anfal campaign, for 4 million Iraqi dinars ($2,742) to spend on local infrastructure improvements.
