Relying on secondary sources, technical and elite level interviews with social and political actors in KRI, the analysis highlights how Kurdish areas of Syria and Iraq have maintained transborder relations which shaped the dynamics of displacement from Syria and constituted the context for a relatively...
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The Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran has been striving for decades for independence in the Kurdish areas of western Iran. Kurdish Rebels Clash With Iran's Revolutionary Guards The Mahabad Republic was controlled by the Kurdish Democratic party of Iran (KDPI), itself an amalgam of a variety of ...
the capital city of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on Sept. 15, 2017. The parliament of the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan on Friday convened for the first time after two years of suspension, and is scheduled to discuss referendum on independence of the Kurdish region. (Xinhua/Khalil Da...
politics and political disagreements between Erbil and Baghdad during the second Iraq Republic (2003 to date). It then analyses the future of the disputed areas in the post-ISIS period which are at the centre of KRI–Baghdad relations. A solution to this difficult question needs to be ...
A collection of useful phrases in Kurmanji Kurdish, which is spoken in Turkey, Syria, and northern parts of the Kurdish-speaking areas of Iraq and Iran. Jump to phrases See these phrases in any combination of two languages in thePhrase Finder. If you can provide recordings, corrections or ad...
"Turkey will support Iraq in the reconstruction of the devastated areas, as we supported Iraq in its war with the terrorist Daesh (IS group)," Cavusoglu said. For his part Jaafari said that the Iraqi and Turkish officials discussed political, economic and security issues. ...
BAQUBA, Iraq, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The council of Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Tuesday rejected conducting Kurdish independence referendum slated for Sept. 25 in some of its territories, which are part of the disputed areas between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. ...
In a nonbinding 2017 referendum, declared illegal by Iraq, Kurds voted for independence; subsequently Iraqi forces seized Kirkuk and Kurdish-held areas outside the Kurdish region and took other measures against the Kurdish government. Relations between the region and Baghdad improved in 2018. In ...
Tensions have been running high between Baghdad government and the Kurdish region after the region held a controversial referendum on independence of Kurdistan and disputed areas, including Kirkuk. The independence referendum was opposed by many countries because it would threaten the integrity of Iraq ...