Iraqi Finance Minister Taif Sami Mohammed has refused to use the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) MyAccount digital banking initiative to distribute salaries through private banks, saying that
The name of the city of Akre is derived from the Kurdish word agir, meaning fire. During the annual Newroz, or Kurdish New Year, celebrations on March 20, locals with torches descend from the mounta
On March 19, German Deputy Foreign Minister and Minister of State Tobias Lindner paid a visit to the Kurdistan Region, and reiterated Germany’s steadfast support of the Kurdistan Region and peshmerg
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) – an independent, bipartisan federal government entity that monitors religious freedom – on March 18 called on the U.S. government to
The Global Kurdish Initiative for Peace hosted an event at the School of International Service (SIS) at American University (AU) in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2024, to commemorate the 36th anniv
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on March 3 bid farewell to UN Special Advisor Christian Ritscher, the Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Acco
Since March 7, 2024, it is possible to translate posts on the social media platform X from Sorani to English, thanks to the efforts of Kurdish language activist Bokan Jaff.
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The Geneva Grand Prize at the 22nd International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights (FIFDH) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday was awarded to the film Name Me Lawand directed by Edward Lovelac
On March 16, on the 36th anniversary of the Halabja chemical attack, in which 5,000 civilians were killed by the former Ba’ath regime, a moment of silence was held in the Kurdistan Region, including
On March 14, the Kurdish National Council (KNC), one of the main Kurdish parties in Syria, issued a statement strongly condemning the killing of 16-year-old Ahmed Khaled Ma’mo by a 26-year old man i
