Al-Ahram Weekly
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World
10/5/2023 5:31:00 PM
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack that targeted the heart of the Turkish capital Ankara this week.
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World
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Region
10/2/2023 9:53:07 AM
Turkish jets launched air strikes inside Iraqi Kurdistan late Sunday, after a blast earlier the same day injured two police officers near the parliament building in Ankara.
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World
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Region
8/28/2023 3:34:47 PM
Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement to disarm members of Iranian Kurdish dissident groups based in northern Iraq and relocate their members from their current bases, officials from the two countries said Monday.
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Region
8/24/2023 12:12:43 PM
Three members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) were killed Thursday in a Turkish drone strike in Iraq's Kurdistan region, authorities said, as Ankara's top diplomat visited the northern region.
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7/29/2023 1:36:56 PM
Four "fighters" from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) have been killed by a drone strike in northern Iraq, officials in the autonomous Kurdistan region said, blaming the Turkish military.
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Region
6/11/2023 11:59:09 AM
Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others wounded Sunday in a pre-dawn attack in the country's north blamed on the Islamic State group, a military official said.
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Region
4/5/2023 3:59:39 PM
Turkey has closed its air space to flights from the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah, blaming the increased activity of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.
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Business
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Energy
4/4/2023 2:43:39 PM
Iraq's federal government and the Kurdistan autonomous region signed an accord Tuesday to allow Kurdish oil exports to resume through Turkey after they were halted 10 days ago, officials said.
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World
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Region
3/26/2023 7:26:55 PM
Authorities in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region announced on Sunday a November date for legislative elections which had been postponed by a year due to disputes between two major parties.
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World
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Region
3/26/2023 10:32:37 AM
Turkey stopped oil exports from Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday following arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce, the Iraqi oil ministry said.
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World
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Region
3/17/2023 1:18:35 PM
Iran on Friday executed a Kurdish man viewed as a political prisoner by activists for membership in an outlawed group, rights groups said.
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World
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Region
12/31/2022 5:40:33 PM
Police in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region said on Saturday they had arrested 16 young men after a viral video showed a teenage girl being attacked at a motorcycle rally.
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World
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Region
12/3/2022 8:55:25 PM
A Turkish court on Saturday jailed a convicted member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) a day after Sweden extradited him, state media reported.
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World
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Region
12/1/2022 6:12:40 PM
Iran's president paid a visit Thursday to Kurdistan province, the cradle of protests over Mahsa Amini's death, and urged people to thwart the "enemy" which his government accuses of stoking the unrest.
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World
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Region
11/28/2022 11:59:51 AM
Iranian-Kurdish rebel groups have for decades sought refuge in northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, but they have recently come under fresh fire amid weeks of protests in the neighbouring Islamic republic.
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World
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Region
11/14/2022 5:39:35 PM
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) denied Monday any role in a deadly bomb attack in central Istanbul that killed six people, which Turkey has blamed on Kurdish militants.
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World
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Region
11/14/2022 3:33:15 PM
Turkey on Monday accused a Syrian woman of planting a bomb that killed six people in Istanbul, blaming the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) of carrying out the attack.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/18/2022 8:38:30 PM
They say that if a butterfly flutters its wings in Japan, the effect will be felt as far away as Mexico. In theory this is true. The impact of butterfly wing’s flap may be very faint in its immediate environment, but repetitive flaps create a cumulative and far-reaching effect.
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World
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Region
10/7/2022 4:27:05 PM
One person was killed and four others, two women and two children, were injured when a bomb exploded Friday in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, counter-terrorism forces said.
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World
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Region
10/2/2022 2:51:18 PM
The ministry usually refers to killed militants as ``neutralized.'' It said the number of casualties in the mission in the Asos region of northern Iraq, which is controlled by the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, was expected to rise.
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