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A Historic Day in Paris
The opening of Peshmerga Path in Paris on September 5, 2025, served as a tribute to the sacrifice of Kurdish fighters in the battle against ISIS and a reaffirmation of France’s longstanding support
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One Man’s Path to the Kurdish Struggle
Anthony Avice Du Buisson is a South African-Australian conflict analyst, researcher, and freelance writer specializing in Middle Eastern security and humanitarian issues. He is particularly interest
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Zakho and Moorhead Forge Historic Partnership
In a groundbreaking move to enhance international collaboration, the Zakho Independent Administration of the Kurdistan Region has officially signed a friendship proclamation with the city of Moorhea
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Post-PKK Era: Opportunities for Kurdistan
The formal dissolution of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in May 2025 has opened an unpredictable but potentially transformational era in the Kurdistan Region.
For decades, the region’s mountain
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Barzani Speaks: A 1975 Encounter Revisited
“Mulla Mustafa is in Tehran!”
This message arrived at our newspaper’s news desk from Shapour Dolatshahi, a diplomat friend who headed the protocol desk at Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Needle
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Germany’s Support for Kurdistan Remains Firm
Germany’s transition to a new government has not altered its commitment to the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, says Albrecht von Wittke, Germany’s Consul General in Erbil. Von Wittke told Kurdistan Chroni
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Empowering Women Through Diplomacy
Earlier this month, the staff at the British Consulate General in Erbil arrived one morning to find that we had a new Consul General! While we were initially taken aback, once the coffee kicked in,
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Tourism as Soft Power: Kurdistan’s Strategic Bet
Once caught in the crossfire of the Iran-Iraq War and devastated by genocidal campaigns, chemical attacks, and forced displacement under successive Iraqi regimes, the Kurdistan Region is determined