Kurdistan

YemenExtra Y.A Iraq has ended a nearly six-month air blockade imposed on its Kurdistan after the semi-autonomous region held a controversial referendum on secession last September. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said…

YemenExtra Y.A Iraq has once again extended by three months a ban on international flights to and from the Kurdish region, some five months after the region held a controversial referendum on independence, which opened up a persisting…

YemenExtra Y.A The Iraqi lawmakers have voted to end sanctions imposed on banks operating in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, some four months after the Central Bank of Iraq ordered private banks to halt their branches’…

YemenExtra Y.A The Iraqi prime minister has called on the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region to stop independent oil exports, saying the crude produced there must be placed under the central government’s control.   Haider…

YemenExtra Y.A The Kurdistan Democratic Party, governing in Iraqi Kurdistan, has not yet commented on the ongoing protests in the region. Protesters demanding the ouster of authorities from the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan,…

YemenExtra Y.A The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), the regional administration of the autonomous Kurdish areas in Iraq, has stated that it will abide by the ruling of the Iraqi Supreme Federal Court that forbids the region from…

YemenExtra Y.A. In an official note to Tehran and Ankara, the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called on them  to halt their trade deals with the Kurdistan region amid the KRG’s secessionism. Alsumaria TV has declared that the…

YemenExtra Y.A Iraq decided on Tuesday to halt flights with Kurdistan in response to a referendum the autonomous region has held for independence from the country. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said his government decided in a…

YemenExtra Y.A Iraq says it will be taking control of the borders of its northern Kurdistan region — which has voted controversially to break away from the country — in coordination with Iran and Turkey. The Iraqi Defense…

YemenExtra Y.A The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider Al-‘Abadi, asked the KRG regime in Erbil give Baghdad full control of the airports and borders in Iraqi Kurdistan, according to Al-Sura News . ‘Abadi warned that if the KRG rejected…