Iraqi Kurds urge their Syrian cousins to make peace with Damascus - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

Mar 14, 2019

Kurdish region's Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani speaks during a news conference in Erbil, Iraq November 20, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RC15B0C57840 — Kurdistan Region of Iraq Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani speaks during a news conference in Erbil, Iraq, Nov. 20, 2017.

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Masrour Barzani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish region's national Security Council, casts his vote during Kurds independence referendum in Erbil, Iraq September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari - RC16957934A0

KRG intelligence chief: Baghdad must give us our rights

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

President of the Kurdistan region in Iraq Nechirvan Barzani sits in a shaft of window light as he greets U.S. Vice President Mike Pence in the VIP terminal at Erbil International Airport in Erbil, Iraq November 23, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC23HD91WQR6

Iraqi Kurdistan president: 'We are not scared of Iran, but we respect Iran'

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

KRG PM: Talk of Iraqi Kurdish independence red line for Iran, but not Turkey

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In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Shi'ite fighters known as Hashid Shaabi walk as smoke rises from an explosives-laden military vehicle driven by an Islamic State suicide bomber which exploded during an attack on the southern edge of Tikrit March 12, 2015. Iraqi security forces and mainly Shi'ite militia exchanged fire sporadically with Islamic State fighters in Tikrit on Thursday, a day after they pushed into Saddam Hussein's home city in their biggest offensive yet against the militants. A Reuters photographer saw one car bomb explode on

PM Barzani: Shiite militias should be regulated

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture