KT News: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is considering paying public sector salaries for the month of June in US dollars rather than Iraqi dinars. IraqiNews.com quotes a KRG source as saying: “the reason for the replacement process in the distribution of salaries is due to a lack of cash of the Iraqi currency in the…
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Kurd MPs split over Iraq presidency, Ma’sum nomination beats Salih
By a Correspondent: The election of the next Iraq president by the Baghdad parliament has been delayed for 24 hours because Kurd politicians have struggled to put forward a single candidate. As a legacy of the Strategic Agreement between the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), it was agreed that…
YPG: Victory will be ours
By Rojava Report: YPG Commander Sipan Hemo marked the second anniversary of the Rojava Revolution by pledging victory to his people, saying “our promise to our people is victory…thanks to our martyrs we are making history” – according to a report written by Seyit Evran for ANF and carried by Özgür Gündem. Rojava Will Be…
UN refugee boss praises ‘generous’ Kurdistan
KT News: The head of UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency, has praised the Kurdistan Region for welcoming hundreds of thousands of displaced people from Iraq. On a visit to the Al-Khazar refugee camp yesterday, Antonio Guterres told reporters that he was “humbled by the generosity and the solidarity of the government and of the people…
Protecting the birth of a nation in a dog eat dog environment
By Evin Cheikosman: Join the fight or lose the battle. This is the mindset that many Kurdish fighters in countries like Iraq, Turkey, Iran, and even Europe share. According to various news sources, hundreds upon thousands of Kurdish fighters are flocking to northern Syria in efforts to help battle jihadists besieging the Kurdish city of…
Doctors Confirm ISIS Use of Chemical Weapon in Kobanê (Graphic Photos)
KT Special Report from Rojava: Local doctors and officials have confirmed that the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIS) used some sorts of chemical weapon that instantly killed Kurdish fighters during clashes in Kobanê of Rojava northeast Syria. Kobanê Canton Health Minister Dr. Na’san Ahmed told KT in a telephone interview that seven local…
Kurds: Signs of division?
By Rahy Rahber: The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its president are advising for an independent Kurdish state. The dream Kurdish history has longed for. Nevertheless, as times passes, the unity of the Kurds passes too. Undoubtedly, all the Kurds long for an independent state. Yet, according to the politics played by the political parties…
Kobanê Frontline in Pictures
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Unifying Moments – That Bind Us All
By Alan Cleveland: A Letter from America History is full of unifying moments. People with whom we might disagree on nearly everything from politics to religion, can, and occasionally do become allies where the more imminent threat comes from a single source that is more villainous than either of the others involved. One example of…
Democracy’s Frontline Starts with the Pershmerga
By Kaziwa Salih: The Middle East, particularly Iraq and Syria, has turned into a triangle battlefield, amongst fanatical groups with diverse titles and similar aims: creating an Islamic state with Stone Age approaches. There are two tyrannical Governments completing this dimension which are Iraq and Syria. The Peshmarga of Kurdistan is the only force defending…
KCK: Settlement process in the North cannot go together with supporting ISIS against Rojava
By the KCK Co-Presidency: To Our Peoples and the Public Opinion The Rojava revolution is the revolution of the entire Kurdistan. Kobani is the heart of the Rojava revolution. The attack on Kobani by ISIS gangs and forces behind it is in fact an attack on the whole people of Kurdistan. These attacks can be…
Iraq in chaos: Time to face reality
By Shakhawan Shorash: As I have pointed out in several articles, the rebuilding process of the Iraqi state has failed because it did not address critical questions and key problems, and because the reconstruction program was imposed on the Iraqis without including the right to choose alternatives. The element of imposition, and the arrogance of…
ISIS suspected of using chemical weapon against Kurds of Kobanê
KT report from Rojava: ISIS militants are suspected of using a “chemical weapon” in yesterday’s onslaught on the besieged Kurdish city of Kobanê in Rojava, northeast Syria. Wedat Muhammad, a Kurdish journalist now in Kobanê, told KT in a telephone interview that ISIS killed 6 Kurdish fighters of the Peoples’ Protection Units (YPG) yesterday, but post-mortem examinations…
Rojava Kurds resist ISIS offensive in Kobanê
KT News: Since 2nd July Kurd forces have fiercely resisted an offensive waged by ISIS jihadists in the canton of Kobanê, the central of three autonomous Rojava cantons, targeting the strategically important Kobanê city. According to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), yesterday 16 Kurdish fighters were killed in the northeastern part…
