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Why are Iraqi Kurds migrating?
The new wave of Iraqi Kurds migrating to Europe is the highest since the Kurdish civil war in the 1990s. However, the...
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Iraq election: Kirkuk vote in numbers
As in every election, the October 10 Iraqi general election was another test for the contested province of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is the...
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How many Yazidi armed groups are there?
There are four main Yazidi factions: those aligned with the PKK, those aligned with the KDP, Yazidi nationalists and those aligned with...
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Kurdish clans in Kurdistan Region
This is a map of the geographic centre of each of the major Kurdish tribes in Kurdistan Region.
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Kurdistan Media Landscape: Who funds what?
Introduction
The Kurdistan Region of Iraq with a population of five and half million, has a vibrant media scene...
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Oil and gas production in KDP and PUK areas
Recently, there has been an ongoing debate whether the PUK-zone areas of Iraqi Kurdistan, which make all Sulaimania province and a small...
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Kurdistan Region’s population is 5.5M
According to a new estimated statistics published by Iraq's ministry of planning, population of the four provinces run by the Kurdistan Regional...
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Kurdistan loses 50 percent of its forests in last two decades
According to data from Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) 's ministry of agriculture, more than 2.2 million acres of natural and humanmade forest...
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Kurdistan Protests explained
The recent wave of protests in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) started 2 December, when a pressure group called Dissatisfied Teachers...
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Kurdistan’s population surpasses 6M
Kurdistan Region’s population has surpassed six million, according to data from the KRG’s statistics directorate:
The region’s total population...
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Gorran movement’s ‘identity crisis’ explained
These are confusing times to be a member of the Gorran movement.Gorran movement was founded as a media group by Patriotic Union...
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Why are Iraqi Kurds migrating?
The new wave of Iraqi Kurds migrating to Europe is the highest since the Kurdish civil war in the 1990s. However, the...
Articles
Iraq election: Kirkuk vote in numbers
As in every election, the October 10 Iraqi general election was another test for the contested province of Kirkuk. Kirkuk is the...
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How many Yazidi armed groups are there?
There are four main Yazidi factions: those aligned with the PKK, those aligned with the KDP, Yazidi nationalists and those aligned with...