A member of the Supreme Political Council and the Interests of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) stressed that the current differences between the party and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) are the result of the efforts of a young and opportunistic group in the PUK.

An Iranian political delegation met with officials from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leadership.

A teacher was expelled from a Turkish school in Mersin province, Turkey Kurdistan, for speaking Kurdish and Arabic with his students, Kurdistan 24 reported on Sunday.

Iraq’s oil ministry has taken all necessary measures required to implement a federal court’s ruling that gives it the authority to manage oil and gas fields in the Kurdistan Region, state oil marketer SOMO said on Monday, April 11.

Iraq’s Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar, said on Monday, April 11, the ministry met with the Kurdistan Region’s delegation to discuss the Region’s oil contracts.

Dominic Brunaccioni, an expert of Turkish and Kurdish affairs, warned that the Kurdish culture, language and identity of the city of Afrin, in Syria Kurdistan, is disappearing as a result of Turkish policies to change the cultural and demographic context of the Kurdish city in Syria.

A Kurdish official said there will be drought in the Kurdistan Region this year, warning that groundwater levels will largely decrease. 

A leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said his party still adheres to one-third of the legal quorum for holding Iraqi parliament sessions to resolve the current crisis in the country, and believes that implementing the Coordination Framework plan is the only way out of the crisis in Iraq.

A member of the legal office of the Kurdish Patriotic Council (ENKS) said the Democratic Union Party always obstructs the Kurdish-Kurdish talks in northern Syria and does not allow the talks to be concluded.

In the coming days, we will see new crises in Iraq that are deeper than the previous ones and may lead to new parliamentary elections, said Mahmoud Osman, an independent Kurdish politician.

A delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is expected to pay a visit to Baghdad on Monday,April 11, for talks on oil and gas, Esta Media Network claimed in a report.

Hopeful that the Ukraine war will tip the scales to its favor in Syria, Turkey is taking escalatory steps on the ground on one hand and testing the diplomatic waters with Damascus on the other.

The legal adviser to the Kurdistan Parliament stressed that the only solution to the current crisis in Iraq is to hold parliamentary elections again.

A member of the Al-Fateh coalition called on Iraqi political forces to stand up to what he called the recklessness of current Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi's government, exposing the Iraqi prime minister's efforts to appease the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) at the expense of the people of the southern provinces.

Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the rights of former pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Leyla Guven were violated when she was kept in prison following her re-election in the 2018 elections, SoL news site reported on Saturday, April 9.

The Secretary-General of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Qais al-Khazali, said on Friday, April 8, the Coordination Framework will not accept a government formed by the Sadrist Movement.

Kurdistan's Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani, on Saturday said that the legal disputes between the federal and Kurdistan regional governments stand as a major impediment to exporting the region's gas to the world.

Tour agencies and shop owners in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region see a silver lining in attracting more international travelers to the off-the-beaten-track destination, as the security situation here improved gradually in recent years.

Around 450 Iraqi families with affiliation to the Islamic State (ISIS) have been transferred out of al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, an Iraqi official told Rudaw on Friday, adding that the transferred families will need to go through rehabilitation programs before they’re sent back to their original places of residence in the country.

US government officials are calling for the implementation of the Shingal agreement, Duhok Governor Ali Tatar told Kurdistan 24 on Thursday.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 23, Iraq has refrained from taking a firm position on the war. On Feb. 28, Iraq voted for an Arab League statement on Ukraine that did not assign responsibility to Russia. Iraq abstained from the March 2 U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) vote that condemned Russian aggression toward Ukraine, and merely expressed “regret” about the “deterioration of the situation and the escalating tensions between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.” Iraq justified its abstention by highlighting the risk of terrorists capitalizing on polarizations within the international community and noting its historical background, which included “sufferings resulting from the continuing wars against our people.”

"Yar" music video composed by Farnood Elhami, sung by Sepehr Zonnurian, performed by Amir Hossein Menshadi, directed by Mohsen Rashidi, produced by Ayaz Tanbour House, and managed by Farid Elhami, the Tanbur player and composer, featuring Tanbur maqams, has been released.

A Coordination Framework MP has said forming the Iraqi government by the largest parliamentary bloc is the way forward as the Shiite House will need to agree amongst themselves, something so far rejected by the election winner Sadr movement.

Sadr-Barzani-Halbousi coalition's idea in forming a majority government in Iraq is problematic both in theoretical and practical ways. The tripartite coalition has the majority of seats, but it still can’t move forward, Dr. Muhammad Ali Waeli, an Iraq affairs' expert told Kurdpress about the current political stalemate in Iraq and the Sadr-led coalition's insistence on forming a majority government.

Turkey was among 93 nations that voted to suspend Russia from the United Nations Human Rights Council at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, April 7.