Washington Post — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its pesh merga forces are not seeking control of the city of Khanaqin. More than 90 percent of the residents of Khanaqin are Kurdish, and the city was peaceful until Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent Iraqi military forces there last month in an unwelcome and unnecessary provocation that sparked demonstrations by tens of thousands of residents...More…
Kurdish Globe — Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir, Head of the Department of Foreign Relations, and Mr Qubad Talabani, Representative of the KRG in the US, held three days of intensive meetings in Washington with senior Bush Administration officials and Members of Congress about developments in the Kurdistan Region, Iraq and the Middle East.
In meetings with top officials at theMore…
guardian.co.uk — Following a British company which leads the market in tours to Iraq's autonomous northern region of Kurdistan, a Paris-based travel agent yesterday added Iraq to its brochure, saying French tourists had signed up wanting an "original experience" and to meet local people "behind the news".
Geoff Hann, of Surrey-based Hinterland Travel, the leading operator in the region who even ran a postwar toMore…
Kurdish Globe — The Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Education Minister Dr Dilshad Abdulrahman Mohammed last week in Europe met Austrian, German and UN education experts to share ideas on reforms to Kurdistan's education system.
Following the productive meetings Dr Abdulrahman said, "We have a lot more in common with the European countries that we visited than was first thought. Such areas include the chMore…
Kurdistan Regional Government — Do you believe that the federal government in Baghdad considers you as its partners in government?
President Barzani: This is the main problem. During my recent visit to Baghdad, I emphasized this point. We asked them: Are we partners or not? If you consider us as your partners then this is one issue; if you do not then this is another issue. They stressed that we are partners. However, in reaMore…
Kurdish Globe — A delegation comprised of Kurdish leaders on Sunday headed to the Iraqi capital to discuss the Khanaqin crisis with senior officials from the central government, a cabinet secretary in the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) said.
"Today, a Kurdish delegation that included the secretary general of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Barham Saleh; a member of the PUK's political bureau, FuoMore…
Kurdistan Regional Government — The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry for Electricity invites companies to submit tenders (bids) for the supply and construction of two 132kv underground feeders of approximately 2.8km in G. length, using the Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) method. Hereafter called the project.
The tender is for EPC engineering, manufacture, supply, erection, testing and commissioning includinMore…
Kurdish Globe — Iraq's Kurdistan region government (KRG) on Sunday conferred the ways to fight corruption in government ministry and to ease routine procedures in their offices, a regional official said.
The cabinet led by regional PM Nechirvan Barzani held a meeting with ministers to probe the causes of corruption and lengthy routine procedures in ministries," Mohamed Khoshnaw, media secretary for Kurdistan More…
The Associated Press — SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi Arabs looking for a break from five years of war and sectarian strife — or just the heartland's heat and dust — are finding one in the green, tranquil mountains of Kurdistan.
More than 23,000 Iraqis headed north to the autonomous Kurdistan region this summer, up from just 3,700 last year, tourism officials say. A week in a modest hotel, with bus fare, costsMore…
