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Iraq asks Turkey to extend Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline deal by one year
Tankers at Turkey's Ceyhan port. Photo: AP BAGHDAD,— Iraq has asked Turkey to extend the Kirkuk-Ceyhan oil pipeline agreement by...
Why Iraqis and Kurdistan Citizens Don’t Trust Banks?
Some elderly Kurdish retirees count the cash from their long-delayed pensions, while others wait in line in Sulaimani city, Iraqi...
The Spirit of Ancient Sumer Revives
The partial reconstruction of the ziggurat of Ur undertaken in the 1980s by Saddam Hussein after a two-thousand five hundred...
Peshmerga must be separated from parties, put under Iraq state: official
Hassan Fadam, a senior leader within the Al-Hikma National Movement, also known as the National Wisdom Movement, led by Ammar...
Rights group slams Barrack naming as Syria, Iraq special envoy
Tom Barrack, Trump’s envoy for Syria and Iraqi affairs, 2025. Photo: AFP BERLIN,—The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) in a...
Massoud Barzani rejects “false claims” about his militia’s arms
Tribal leader and KDP party head Massoud Barzani with his paramilitary Kurdish peshmarge forces, 2018. Photo: Barzani office/via iKurd.net. ERBIL,...
Iraqi Shiite militia Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq to hand over arms to state
From right to left: Hadi al-Amiri leader of the Shiite Badr Organisation, Qais Khazali, the founder and leader of Iranian-backed...
Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah vows to keep arms despite pressure to disarm
Iraq’s pro-Iran armed Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah, Baghdad, Iraq, Sept. 22, 2024. Photo: Reuters BAGHDAD,— The Iraqi Shiite pro-Iran group...
Sadr orders Saraya al-Salam militias to integrate into Iraqi state
Iraqi populist Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, 2022. Photo: AFP BAGHDAD,— Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced Wednesday that he...
The Death Sentence of Ajaj Ahmad Hardan al-Tikriti: Some Immediate Reflections
Ajaj Hardan Ahmad al-Tikriti, at the "Nugra Salman" prison, Iraq, May 2026. Photo: iKurd.net/video/Iraqi TV. Shakhawan Shorash | Exclusive to...
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