Ankara [Turkey], Oct 29 (ANI): Masoud Barzani, President of Kurdish Regional Government, called for presidential elections in northern Iraq on November 1, a month earlier to the scheduled date (December 7).
Ankara [Turkey], Oct 26 (ANI): In a display of solid ties with Iraq, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has said that Turkey is an "absolute defender of Iraq's territorial integrity and political unity."
Washington D.C. [USA], Oct 26 (ANI): Former US State Department official Wa'el Alzayat, remarking on the role of United States in resolving the conflict between Baghdad and Erbil, said that it lacks the power to facilitate dialogue between both the sides.
Erbil [Iraq], Oct 16 (ANI): The Iraqi security forces have begun operations to take over military bases and oil wells from Peshmerga of the oil-rich Kurdish city, asserted the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government (IKBY) Security Agency.
Baghdad [Iraq], October 1 (ANI): Northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has called on the United Nations and the federal government in Baghdad to lift an air embargo imposed on the region following this week's controversial independence referendum.
Baghdad [Iraq], September 13 (ANI): The Iraqi Lawmakers on Tuesday voted against the independence referendum planned by Iraqi Kurdish leaders on September 25 and called on the Prime Minister Haider Abadi to negotiate with them for the unity of the country.
Kurd [Iran] June 22, (ANI) : The President of the Northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, has saidon Wednesday that destroying the Daesh group would not end problem and urged to address the causes that led to the emergence of the jihadist group.