As Islamic State sleeper cells continue to carry out attacks south and west of oil-rich Kirkuk, local tribesmen made efforts to show unity while other factions showed off "resistance" to the United States and Israel.

The US and Russia conducted on Wednesday their first joint patrols in al-Hasakah, a Syrian Kurdish province under the control of the Kurdish forces, local sources said.

A member of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria (al-Party) told KurdPress in an interview that the Syrian central government is unable to hold talks with the Kurds in the north of the country and that the party supports a federal system in the war-torn country, noting that "we call for a decentralized, federated state in Syria so that the rights of all nations are."

A magazine affiliated with retired US military forces, wrote in an article that the U.S. will never fully support Kurdish independence in Iraq and a big part of the failure is due to the US ties with Turkey.

Iraq President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi stressed on the need to completely form the cabinet and support it in order to implement the expected plans, especially holding early elections and realizing the demands of the people.

The Leader of Turkey's Future Party, Ahmed Davutoglu, said in a statement, pointing to the lack of freedoms in the country, that his country cannot breathe freedom. 

The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) will meet the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) next week in an effort to ease the tensions between the two governing partners, KDP Leadership Council member Aras Hasso Mirkhan predicted on Wednesday, May 27.

An oil company in the Kurdistan Region announced that the volume of its crude production in the region will be further reduced due to the continued financial crisis in the region.

The U.S. president said although most U.S. forces have left Syrian-controlled areas, the U.S. remains caring for the Kurds.

A KRG negotiating delegation will soon visit the Iraqi capital for discussions about ongoing disputes over the budget, oil revenues, and other long-standing issues, the General Director of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Foreign Relations Department in Baghdad said on Wednesday, May 27.

The representative of the Syrian self-ruling system in the Kurdistan Region stated that the officials of the system have not reached a final deal with the Kurdish National Council (ENKS), and it is too early to comment on the issue but the preliminary agreements have been completed and discussions are ongoing over how to manage the self-ruling entity and military issues.

Five members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed in a Wednesday strike by Turkey jets in Mawat region in Sulaimani province, the mayor of the region stated.

A representative of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in the Iraqi parliament announced that a delegation from Erbil, to the capital of Kurdistan region will travel to Baghdad to negotiate and reach a comprehensive agreement with the Iraqi central government. 

The Syrian Kurdistan authority for the North and East extended restrictions against the coronavirus pandemic to Syria's Kurdish region by June 5, 2020, citing the continued threat of the virus. 

A high-level negotiating delegation from the Syrian Kurdish National Council (ENKS) visited Erbil in Wednesday morning to hold talks with officials of the Kurdish autonomous region in the north of Iraq.