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Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
Erbil is not a simple dispute, but a sign of a deep rift in the power structure of the Kurdistan region. Despite its tribal appearance, the crisis is rooted in economic monopolization, land grabbing, and the weakening of an independent judiciary by the ruling Barzani family, which could lead to wide ...
Erbil is hopeful it can take advantage of rebuilding Turkish peace process for settling its challenges with Ankara and boost business ties with it. This means that Turkish military actions will step in the autonomous region.
By eliminating the excuse for Turkey’s military presence on Iraqi so ...
Erbil province and the east of Sulaymaniyah province.
Iran and Iraq share a long common border of about 1,450 kilometers, more than 500 kilometers of which is with the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Therefore, it is quite clear that Iraq has a very important and sensitive position in the security environm ...
Erbil base.
Sources with knowledge of the matter told Asharq Al-Awsat that the ongoing changes do not mean a departure from the US-Iraq agreement reached in September 2024. The agreement foresees the withdrawal of several hundred US troops by September, with the rest of the forces scheduled t ...
Erbil and Suleimanyeh.
1. Recent developments: from Erbil to Suleimanyeh
The first sign showed itself in July in Khabat district of Erbil. There, the Harki tribe resorted to warned resistance after security forces and Peshmerga affiliated with the KDP moved to arrest Khurshid Harki, the tribe' ...
Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Currently, 2,500 military forces are in Iraq mainly serving under mission of cooperation with the Iraqi and Kurdish forces to fight ISIS remnants and training Iraqi forces.
According to to a security pact between Iraq and Washington, the remaining A ...
Erbil agreement on production in Khor Mor gas field. According to the agreement, American-French Schlumberger oil and gas company was to produce and supply gas in this field, but since Iraqi Supreme Court's ruling announced Kurdish emeghy sales without Baghdad's permission illegal, the compa ...
Erbil have agreed on resuming Kurdistan oil exports, paving the way for influences ranging from home to the foreign actors. Alwaght- After over two years of halt, Iraqi Kurdistan region has resumed its oil exports via the Turkish Port of Ceyhan. This development is an outcome of a new deal between K ...
Erbil officials, present another serious obstacle to advancing the project. The Kurdistan government worries that the Development Road passing through Nineveh would reduce the economic benefits of transit routes passing through Erbil. The Kurds also fear the project's implementation would dimini ...
Erbil province noted that in the 2025 cycle, streets and city squares were largely emptied of banners and posters, as social media platforms took their place.
Further underscoring this shift, a Shafaq News report titled Iraq's Digital Arena: Social Media Shapes the 2025 Elections highlighted th ...