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The Asian Age
March 30, 2018
Earlier in July 2017, Singh had travelled to Erbil, Iraq to locate and bring back the 39 Indians reportedly kept in Mosul as hostages of the ISIS. The group of Indian labourers, mostly from Punjab, was taken hostage by ISIS when it overran Iraq's second largest city Mosul in 2014. The workers were trying toÃâà...
Rudaw
March 30, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Amid growing ISIS activity disputed areas ahead of parliamentary elections, Peshmerga officials say they are ready to return to ... Three Peshmerga brigades had been stationed in these areas prior to the events of October 16 when Iraqi forces and Hashd al-Shaabi took over.
Kurdistan24
March 30, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Discussions about the upcoming parliamentary elections in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region led Thursday's meeting in ... Kubiš said international efforts to create a suitable ground for the Iraqi elections are ongoing but stressed the need for a consensus of all Iraqi political parties,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 30, 2018
Erbil, Iraq - Government employees in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, including teachers and doctors, have protested against ... "Baghdad is sending our salaries, but the Erbil administration still wants to keep the deduction system, which is not acceptable," he said at the protest in Erbil.
Rudaw
March 29, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – An Iraqi counterterrorism unit in Kirkuk has asked the families of Peshmerga fighters killed in the war against ISIS to remove the ... The Kurdistan flag was hoisted, albeit in a position lower than the Iraqi standard, on the castle of Kirkuk during Newroz celebrations in the city.
Hurriyet Daily News
March 27, 2018
Sayef Gaffur, an Iraqi passenger who lives in Hungary, told Anadolu Agency that during the flight ban he had to enter northern Iraq through Habur border gate in southeastern Turkey to visit his family in Arbil. “It was a difficult journey and took a long time,” Gaffur said. Turkish Prime Minister Binali YıldırımÃâà...
TRT World
March 23, 2018
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday announced the lifting of a flight ban to northern Iraq's Erbil city. Speaking to media in the capital Ankara, Yildirim said, "We had closed down our airspace following northern Iraq's referendum. We are opening our airspace as of today." An international flight banÃâà...
New York Times
March 22, 2018
These scenes illustrate a remarkable turnaround in relations between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government in Erbil since last fall, when Iraqi troops were battling Kurdish fighters after a controversial Kurdish referendum for independence. After the vote, Iraqi forcesÃâà...
Ammon News
March 18, 2018
AMMONNEWS - Royal Jordanian (RJ), the flag carrier of the kingdom, will resume its scheduled flights to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq from Amman from April 1. ... The decision to relaunch the flights was taken as Iraqi authorities announced the reopening of the airports in these cities. AirlinesÃâà...
Petra News Agency
March 17, 2018
Amman, March 16 (Petra)-- Royal Jordanian will resume its scheduled flights between Amman and each of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq as of April 1, 2018, the airline said in a statement ... The decision to relaunch the flights was taken as Iraqi authorities announced the reopening of the airports in these cities.
Kurdistan24
March 17, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – People of the Kurdistan Region marked the 30th anniversary of the Halabja Massacre, commemorating the tragic event by calling for the prevention of similar atrocities around the world. In Halabja, a special ceremony was held to recognize the genocide withÃâà...
Rudaw
March 17, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Erbil will be one three cities in Iraq to resume hosting international FIFA football matches. ... on the three beloved cities of Erbil, Karbala and Basra, I warmly congratulate sports fans across and outside Iraq," Abdulkhaliq Masoud, head of the Iraqi Football Association, told Rudaw.
Egypt Independent
March 16, 2018
After a six-month blockade, the airports of the Kurdish regional capital, Irbil, and second city Sulaimaniyah will be “reopened to international flights,” Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in a statement on Tuesday. “Local Kurdish authorities [have] accepted that central authorities retake control of theÃâà...
Khaleej Times
March 10, 2018
Father Najeeb Michaeel inspects an old Christian book at the Oriental Manuscript Digitisation Centre in Arbil. ... In August 2014, as the Daesh group charged towards Qaraqosh, once Iraq's largest Christian city, Father Najeeb filled his car with rare manuscripts, 16th century books and irreplaceable records.
Rudaw
March 10, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A top Shiite leader in Iraq has hailed the role of Iran in preventing Iraq's fall to ISIS and commended it for putting away the flames ... The Iraqi army and Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi took over the city of Kirkuk in mid-October 2017 after Peshmerga forces pulled out in the face of aÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 10, 2018
... a significant treasure,” the Dominican friar told AFP in a telephone interview from his office in the city of Arbil, capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. “We can't save a tree if we don't save its roots, and a man without culture is a dead man.” In August 2014, as ISIS charged towards Qaraqosh, once Iraq's largest ChristianÃâà...
Rudaw
March 9, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - A number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Tuz Khurmatu currently seeking shelter in the Kurdistan Region have ... to their troubled city, they will not be compensated by the Iraqi government, while IDPs from other parts of Iraq are compensated when returning home.
Rudaw
March 9, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Erbil province and its Iranian neighbour of West Azerbaijan are seeking to operate the international border of Haji Omran on a ... Iran has pledged to provide Iraq with $2 billion to help with reconstruction in the country following the military defeat of ISIS late last year, Iraqi PrimeÃâà...
Kurdistan24
March 7, 2018
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – Airports in the Kurdistan Region are only resuming international flights to Saudi Arabia for religious pilgrims, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi stated on Tuesday during his weekly press briefing that Baghdad may lift theÃâà...
Rudaw
March 2, 2018
Kamal Kirkuki, commander of the Peshmerga on the west Kirkuk front, speaking to reporters after opening the Erbil-Kirkuk road from the Peshmerga side on March 2, ... Fighting between Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga forces in October was to “protect the capital of the Kurdistan Region,” he added.
Antiwar.com
March 1, 2018
Parliament demanded the Iraqi government set a timeline on the withdrawal of foreign troops in Iraq. Abdel-Rahim al-Shemari, a lawmaker from Nineveh province, complained that Nineveh cannot handle the large amount corpses that remain unburied in the city and wants international help. SeparatelyÃâà...
Kurdistan24
February 17, 2018
The clashes occurred when a group of tourists from the Iraqi city of Basra allegedly printed the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militias name on a billboard and placed it near the ... “Such behavior is unacceptable and against the Kurdistan Region's values of peaceful coexistence between all components of Iraq,” the Governor said.
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
On Friday, Turkish Airlines CEO Bilal Eksi had announced on Twitter that the country's flag carrier will start regular flights to the Iraqi city on March 26. Turkey announced it is lifting its nearly six-month ban on flights to the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. "We had closed down our airspace following northern Iraq'sÃâà...
Adventist News Network
December 31, 1999
The Seventh-day Adventist community inaugurated its first church in Erbil, the capital city of the Iraqi Kurdistan region, on Sunday, February 25. During the first service in the new church building on the Sabbath before, the church members reflected on the past years, the challenges faced and the blessingsÃâà...
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