Christmas-New Year Dinner Kurdistan Prime Minister Masrour Barzani welcomed diplomatic delegations, ambassadors, consular officers, and foreign representatives in Kurdistan and Iraq to a Christmas-New Year dinner, extending congratulations and best wishes for the upcoming year During the gathering,...

Family appeals for house arrest The family of 81 year old Makbule Özer have requested house arrest in lieu of prison following a decision by the Council of Forensic Medicine (CFM) that she is fit for incarceration. This request was made amid concerns over Özer’s health Özer, who was scheduled to re...

Turkey’s opposition fragments Turkish opposition bloc fragmented ahead of the country’s local elections set to be held in March, as parties opted out of forming alliances on Monday, turning the tables in favor of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) In the 201...

Kurdistan’s trees lost to climate change More than half of Kurdistan’s trees have died due to droughts caused by climate change, an advisor to the Region’s President Nechirvan Barzani revealed on Friday “Drought has left a negative impact on the Kurdistan Region. Despite having numerous forests, no...

Death toll reaches 16,248 and 43,616 wounded Contrary to the Israeli and American lies purported regarding 'safe zones' in Gaza, Hamas spokesman in Lebanon Osama Hamdan revealed Tuesday that nowhere is safe New information from The Palestinian government in Gaza's information center has revealed th...

BCF Aids IDPs in Duhok The Kurdish Barzani Charity Foundation (BCF) has distributed humanitarian assistance to internally displaced persons (IDPs) with special needs at Dumiz 2 camp in Duhok province In a collaborative endeavor with the ILC Foundation, the BCF distributed blankets to IDPs at Dumiz ...

New migration rules Most people living in Britain will be unable to bring a husband, wife or partner to join them under the Government’s new migration rules Only those earning £38,700 or more will be entitled to sponsor dependants – including children and elderly parents as well as partners – to ge...

Turkish attack kills civilian The Turkish state killed a civilian named Alî Cemîl Kelaş and wounded another in an attack on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Warplanes of the occupying Turkish state bombarded Bamernê neighbourhood of Duhok in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on Tuesday. As a result of...

33 abductions and arrests in November The occupying Turkish state and its gangs were involved in 33 cases of kidnapping and arrest against civilians in Afrin in November, extorted 5 million 400 thousand dollars from farmers during this period In a statement released by the Afrin-Syria Human Rights ...

Decision on arrest to be made today (Monday) The Turkish public prosecutor's office has withdrawn the summon to arrest 81-year-old Kurdish woman Makbule Özer. The final decision would be made today Apparently it has not yet been decided whether 81-year-old Makbule Özer will have to serve the remain...

No magic pot' for Ukraine funds The White House told Congress on Monday that unless Congress adopts its supplementary budget request, it would run out of money to give military help to Ukraine before the end of the year Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote to Speak...

Criminalisation of Kurdish community A raid on the Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey around a week ago is likely to have repercussions for the London police. A law firm in the English capital will file a lawsuit with the competent administrative court on behalf of the Kurdish Community Center. W...

Resumption of Industrial Work ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw and Chairman of the Kurdistan Board of Investment Dr. Mohammed Shukri chaired a meeting on Monday to follow up on the steps to provide more services to the Tiemar Industrial Zone, according to a statement from the Erb...

Thousands of Yezidi women in ISIS custody ERBIL (Kurdistan24) – More than 2,000 kidnapped Yezidi women are believed to be in ISIS custody even though the militant group no longer holds territory, a KRG official told Kurdistan24 on Monday Remarks by Parez Omer, the head of the gender department at K...

Renewed ISIS attacks ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga commanders in Diyala province call for greater cooperation with the Iraqi army amid rising attacks from the so-called Islamic State militants The call for cooperation comes as the ISIS militants have recently killed at lea...