Erbil, Kurdistan (KRG.org) – The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a research wing of the highly regarded Economist magazine, in May completed an assessment of the Kurdistan Region on six key indices.
Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (MNR.KRG.org) - The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is pleased to announce that the KRG’s second sale of piped crude oil export via the port of Ceyhan was safely delivered to the buyers.
Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq (MNR.KRG.org) - The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is surprised and disappointed that Bloomberg news agency should see fit to publish a story about Kurdistan Regional Government oil sales that is full of inaccuracies, half-truths and highly partisan comment.
Erbil, Kurdistan (KRG.org) – The eighth cabinet of the Kurdistan Regional Government was announced at a special session of the Kurdistan Parliament held on 18 June 2014. Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani, Deputy Prime Minister Qubad Talabani, and all cabinet ministers were sworn into office.
Erbil, Kurdistan (KRG.org) - The Kurdistan Regional Government’s seventh cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Imad Ahmed, yesterday held its final meeting.
Erbil, Kurdistan (KRG.org) – The Kurdistan Regional Government's Ministry of Education has initiated a one-month teachers’ training programme for Syrian refugees working as teachers in the refugee camps in the Kurdistan Region.
Mosul, in northern Iraq, had a substantial Christian population of around 10,000 until Sunni Islamist militants belonging to the Islamic State in Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) took the city in their lightning offensive last week.
London, United Kingdom (KRG.org) – The key to Iraq's unity is power-sharing, revenue-sharing and the implementation of the Constitution, Dr Ashti Hawrami, the Kurdistan Regional Government's Minister of Natural Resources, told a London conference yesterday.
Kurdish Peshmerga forces will not help Iraq's army retake the city of Mosul from jihadist militants, the head of the Kurdistan Regional Government says.
The prime minister of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region has told the BBC's Jim Muir he does not believe the country will stay together, as Sunni extremist militants continue to make territorial gains.