Milan Jaff, a Kurdish rapper who rose to prominence in Finland through music and social media, has rejected portrayals in Finnish media that describe him as a “mafia boss,” saying such labels are misleading and based on his artistic image rather than his real life.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot’s visit to the region aims to follow up on the implementation of the integration agreement between Damascus and “our brothers in arms” - the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - a senior foreign ministry official told Rudaw in an interview aired Friday.
Japan is celebrating the 85th anniversary of its diplomatic relations with Iraq this year, with its ambassador in Baghdad highlighting growing cooperation with both Iraq and the Kurdistan Region across trade, infrastructure, culture, and education.
A subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned ZhenHua Oil said on Sunday that Iraq is its “core market” and pledged to expand investments in the country’s energy sector, as Baghdad pushes to boost production and cut gas flaring.
European Union Ambassador to Iraq, Thomas Seiler, has voiced concern that the formation of the Kurdistan Region’s new government could become entangled with Baghdad's political trajectory if the current deadlock continues.
As Turkey tentatively steps onto a path towards peace, buoyed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) symbolic disarmament, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) is preparing for an internal overhaul with an eye to elevating the party's political standing.
While praising the religious diversity in the Kurdistan Region, a prominent German political activist stated that it is unlikely that much of the 1.5 million Christians and Yazidis who have left Iraq in the past two decades will return after having sought refuge abroad.
