An Italian aframax is due to load the first Kurdish crude cargo from Turkey in two years following the reopening of the Iraq-Turkey Pipeline. Two industry sources told the Asharq Al-awsat website that ...

Forces of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) raided the private Assyrian Christian schools in the cities of Hasakah and Qamishli, shutting them down by force on Monday 29 September, several ...

The Kurdish-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria has welcomed international calls to repatriate foreign nationals linked to the Islamic State group (IS) from detention camps in ...

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In July, Baghdad and Arbil had agreed that the Kurdistan region would resume delivering all oil produced in the region's fields to SOMO for export. Iraq resumed crude exports from the autonomous ...

Crude oil flowed on Saturday through a pipeline from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in northern Iraq to Turkey for the first time in two-and-a-half years, after an interim deal broke a deadlock, ...

Iraq resumed on Saturday crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region, state media said, after a more than two-year halt over legal and technical disputes. Control over lucrative oil exports has ...

Flows start smoothly and rapidly, Iraq's oil ministry says Iraq's OPEC delegate says country can export more than its current quantity Resumption allows 180,000-190,000 bpd of crude to flow Sept 27 ...

Iraq has resumed crude oil exports from the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to Turkiye after an interim deal broke a two-and-a-half-year deadlock over legal and technical disputes. The resumption ...

ISIS terrorists targeted Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers in northeast Syria, killing five and wounding one. The SDF claims they thwarted the attack and vowed to avenge the "martyrs." Members ...