WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq and Iran, Andrew Peek, explained on Wednesday that the US was strongly urging the Iraqi government to resume the export of oil from Kirkuk to Turkey. Those exports were cut off last year after Iraqi forces, in a military operation engineered by Qasim Soleimani, head of the Quds… Read more »
No talks on government formation yet: PUK Though the Kurdistan Region parliament held its first session on Tuesday, talks about forming the next government or selecting senior figures have not begun, said Saadi Pira, spokesperson for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). “No meeting has been held between the political parties to discuss a post,” he told reporters on Tuesday…. Read more »
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish semi-autonomous region will abide by decisions made by the federal government of Iraq regarding US sanctions on neighboring Iran, a Kurdish official affirmed on Sunday. “The Kurdistan Region is part of Iraq,” the spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Safeen Dizayee, told Kurdistan 24. “Whatever the federal government of Iraq decides, the Kurdistan… Read more »
When I first read the headline about Egypt putting it’s prisoners to work on the inside of prison I was intrigued and shocked because I had no idea how that could be a good idea or how it work. Egypt has found a way to allow its prisoners to work while behind bars and allow them to still contribute to… Read more »
United Nations Special Envoy to Libya Ghassan Salame has said he expects elections to take place in the war-wracked country in early 2019. The announcement on Thursday is the first official acknowledgement that elections in Libya will be difficult to hold on December 10, as had been agreedby rival leaders at a Paris summit in May. Salame said a national conference in early 2019… Read more »
Archaeologists working at a dig in Cairo have found several fragments of stone slabs with inscriptions that could be 4,000 years old, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities said. Some of the limestones date to the 12th (founded in 1991 BCE) and 20th dynasties, of the Middle and New Kingdoms, the ministry said on Tuesday. German Egyptologist Dietrich Raue, the head of the… Read more »
Egyptian authorities are drawing on prisons to combat rising retail prices and boost the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) by giving jails another dimension as production centers for a range of consumer products. In line with the “reform and rehabilitate” principle called for in the Egyptian Constitution, sentenced craftsmen, carpenters, farmers, veterinarians, shoemakers and many others have an opportunity to work, make money and become… Read more »
King Mohammed VI of Morocco has expressed his readiness to hold talks with neighbouring Algeria, a long-time regional rival. In a speech delivered on Tuesday, the king said dialogue was necessary to overcome the two countries’ differences, as he proposed setting up a joint political consultation mechanism to resolve the ongoing dispute. “I should like to say today, in a very straightforward and… Read more »
Over this past weekend, many events have occurred in the Middle East region of the world. An even that I find interesting that I am going to put emphasis on is the sentencing of a Shiite cleric and two of his fellow opposition members to life for after facing charges of Spying for the Qatar nation. The members of this… Read more »
This whole situation makes me sad. The fact that the common civilians are holed up in their homes, just waiting to see if the violence will stop or get worse, is sickening. It’s also disgusting that the United Arab Emirates are providing these civilians and the rebels with food and other resources to keep them alive when they’re the ones… Read more »