ERBIL — Iraq’s State Oil Marketing Organization (SOMO) has completed all preparations and signed contracts with buyers to receive oil from the Kurdistan Region, the company’s Director General Ali ...

ERBIL — Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met on Thursday with China’s Ambassador to Iraq, Cui Wei, to advance preparations for the second Arab–Chinese Summit. According to a ...

ERBIL — Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), on Monday received an Iranian delegation led by West Azerbaijan Governor Reza Rahmani in Erbil, where both ...

ERBIL — Prominent Iraqi journalist Steven Nabil has warned that Iraq’s oil smuggling operations are far more extensive than previously reported by the US Treasury Department, accusing government ...

ERBIL — Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the Council of Ministers to finalize the disbursement of public sector salaries and discuss steps to resume ...

ERBIL — Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has denounced recent drone attacks targeting oil infrastructure in the Kurdistan Region as “terrorist acts,” pledging close coordination with ...

ERBIL — Newly verified video footage has revealed the execution-style killings of 12 unarmed Druze civilians in southern Syria’s Suwayda province, as the civilian death toll from recent violence rises ...

ERBIL — More than five years after its launch, Iraq’s multi-billion dollar agreement with China — designed to exchange oil for infrastructure development — remains clouded by questions over its ...

Today Marks 42nd Anniversary of Barzanis’ GenocideERBIL — Today marks 42 years since the mass arrest and enforced disappearance of more than 8,000 Barzani men and boys by Saddam Hussein’s regime in ...

ERBIL — Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani are expected to hold direct talks in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Thursday to address the worsening ...

ERBIL — Iraqi authorities on Monday arrested Eyad Kadhim Ali, former director of the Karkh Agriculture Department in Baghdad, for his alleged role in triggering an armed assault that left two people ...

ERBIL — An Iraqi politician has accused Finance Minister Taif Sami of covering up the disappearance of $2.5 billion from Rafidain Bank, alleging the theft was part of a long-running and deliberate ...