Iraq’s Kurdish leadership rejected on Sunday the Iraqi government demand that it cancels the outcome of an independence referendum as a precondition for talks to resolve the dispute.
Kurdish leaders who met to discuss the crisis in the Kurdish town of Dokan renewed their offer to “resolve peacefully” the crisis with Baghdad, Kurdistan Regional Government President Masoud Barzani’s aide, HeminRead more
A row has broken out over the use of the Kurdish flag rather than Iraq’s colors at former president Jalal Talabani’s funeral, at a time of Iraqi-Kurdish tensions.
Social media is abuzz with chatter over the choice of flag at Friday’s funeral in Sulaimaniyah, Talabani’s fiefdom in the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Central government figures and Iraqi KurdishRead more
Jalal Talabani, the Kurdish leader who became Iraq’s president after the US-led invasion and helped steer the country through years of insurgent and sectarian strife, has died in a Berlin hospital at the age of 83, Kurdish officials said Tuesday.
Talabani died after his condition rapidly deteriorated, according to Marwan Talabani, a relative and senior official in the office ofRead more