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The political sphere in Iraq's Kurdistan region was, until recently, in a state of suspended animation. The Kurdistan region's two principal political movements are the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). They...
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Most Kurds in northern Iraq want diplomatic ties with Israel, a poll indicated. The poll was conducted in Erbil, capital Kurdistan, Maariv said Monday. Seventy-one percent of respondents in the poll supported establishing diplomatic ties with Israel and...
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An Iranian regional official says the two men and a woman are being questioned after they entered the country illegally...US media have identified the trio who went missing in the rugged mountains as Shane Bauer, Sara Shourd and Joshua Fattal who are...
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In an effort to resolve regional disputes, Nuri al-Maliki visited Iraq's Kurdish region on Sunday and Monday for the first time as Premier and held talks with Kurdish leaders, including the President of Iraq Jalal Talabani and head of the regional Kurdish...
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Swiss diplomats are trying to find out what happened to three Americans reportedly captured in Iran, the Foreign Ministry said Sunday. The Swiss Embassy in Tehran is working to learn more about the Americans' fate through its contacts with the Iranian...
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Qubad Talabani tThe Kurdish regional government's envoy to Washington, told the Associated Press Iran had confirmed that the three were in Iranian custody...The Barack Obama administration has attempted to improve relations with Iran, but they remain...
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State Department said Friday it was investigating reports that three American tourists have been detained by Iranians while hiking near the border in the self-ruled Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Two Kurdish officials, speaking on condition of anonymity...
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Shahou Saeed, a spokesman for the Change list, said it had registered complaints with the electoral commission ranging from what it said was an unwarranted extension of polling hours to balloting by unregistered voters. The Shams Network, an independent...
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World June 1, 2009, Monday Iraqi workers at Tawke oil field in the town of Zakho, northern Iraq on 01 June 2009. The Kurds in Northern Iraq have started to export oil from the first time in their history...Initially, Iraqi Kurdistan is going to export...
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We consider the start of the exports as a historic moment for us,” Mehmet Okutan, the Turkish project manager of the Taq Taq oil field, one of the two northern Iraqi fields that will officially start pumping crude oil. Oil from Taq Taq, along with Tawke,...
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