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Iraqi Kurdistan politics
PUK will wait and watch until the picture in Baghdad is clear: Saadi Ahmed Pira
Saadi Ahmed Pira, the spokesperson and member of Political Bureau of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan PUK, Iraqi Kurdistan, February 2024. Photo:...
Protest against Barzani’s party in Duhok over alleged election fraud
Protests against Barzani's KDP over election fraud in Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, November 13, 2025. Photo: iKurd.net/channel8/SM DUHOK,— Demonstrations across the...
Time for Turkey to end its occupation, deforestation in Iraqi Kurdistan
Turkish Tanks in Turkey Kurdistan (Bakur) near Iraqi Kurdistan (Bashur) and Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) borders, 2016. Photo: EPA It is...
Iraqis vote in parliamentary election with little hope for reform
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani casts his vote in the 2025 Council of Representatives elections at one of the...
PUK’s Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed fires back at Fazil Mirani’s “treason” claim
Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed, senior member of the PUK and Iraq’s First Lady (center), with her nephews Bafel Talabani, PUK Party...
Bafel Talabani “mentally ill and in need of treatment” says KDP’s Fazil Mirani
A composite image of the Executive Head of the KDP's Politburo, Fazil Mirani, right, and the President of the Patriotic...
Kurdish journalist Hêmin Mamend accuses Barzanis of plotting his killing in Sulaimani
Iraqi Kurdish journalist Hemin Mamend, Sulaimani, Iraqi Kurdistan, November 5, 2025. Photo: iKurd.net/Channel8 TV video Hêmin Mamend says “The Same...
PUK security forces block interview with jailed Shaswar Abdulwahid
Shaswar Abdulwahid, leader of the New Generation Movement (Cûłanewey Newey Nwê), greets supporters inside Sulaimani Court, Iraqi Kurdistan, September 2,...
Kurdistan bans online game Roblox following Iraq’s similar move
Illustrative photo: iKurd.net ERBIL,— Authorities in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region have ordered internet providers to block the online game Roblox from...
Political Islam harms Kurdish society, activist says
Satar Rasul, Kurdish political activist in Ranya, Iraqi Kurdistan, October 2025. Rojnews video/via iKurd.net RANYA, Iraqi Kurdistan,— A Kurdish activist...
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