Syria’s opposition militants are preventing 15,000 people from leaving Shahba area in Aleppo province days after they took control of the area from Kurdish forces, a senior official from the Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria (Rojava) told Rudaw English on Thursday.

The Turkish government on Friday dismissed another Kurdish mayor for terror-related charges as part of its clampdown on opposition-held municipalities.

Clashes between rebels and the army in Syria’s most populous city Aleppo and its countryside have claimed the lives of over 250 people, including civilians, according to a war monitor. Damascus said the escalation serves the objectives of Israel.

The United Kingdom has appointed Irfan Siddiq as its new ambassador to Baghdad, transferring incumbent Stephen Hitchen to another post, a move the British foreign ministry called “routine” on Tuesday.

Canada will close its office in Erbil and reduce diplomatic presence in Iraq and Jordan in March 2025, a spokesperson of Global Affairs Canada told Rudaw on Thursday.

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) spokesperson on Thursday said that no fresh talks are taking place between them and Ankara to resolve the Kurdish issue in Turkey, also calling on the Turkish government to seek peace with Kurds instead of carrying out cross-border military offensives.

An official from Iraq's Independent Electoral High Commission (IHEC) on Monday said their preparations for the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections are currently underway despite the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s (KDP) boycott.

US Department of State Spokesperson Matthew Miller on Tuesday said that Washington will hold accountable all groups Washington finds responsible for attacks on American troops, declining to comment on an Iraqi group’s decision to suspend attacks on US troops.

Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah, supported by Iran, on Tuesday announced the suspension of all military operations against American troops "to prevent embarrassment to the Iraqi government.” Washington has blamed the group for the recent deadly drone attack on American troops in Jordan.

Senior military officials from the United States and the Kurdistan Region on Monday held the inaugural Peshmerga Executive Steering Committee meeting in Erbil, assessing progress on reforms within the Kurdish forces, according to a joint statement by the Pentagon and the Kurdistan Region Presidency.

The United States Department of State on Friday approved the sale of 40 new F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally approved Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance.

Dana Gas on Friday resumed gas production at the Khor Mor field in Sulaimani province one day after it was hit by a weaponized drone, Kurdistan Region's natural resources ministry told Rudaw, adding that they have also resumed power generation.

Erbil’s already-struggling real estate sector has been further impacted by recent drone attacks by pro-Iran militia groups targeting United States troops based in the province. Lucrative residential properties located near the airport have witnessed a substantial decline in buyer interest.

Peshraw Dizayee dreamed of turning Erbil into another Dubai. He had also spent millions of dollars on building an opulent residence in the city, intending to make it his lifelong abode. But he was killed by Iranian missiles on Monday.

Five Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in the Kurdistan Region, Turkey’s defense ministry announced on Friday.

An unidentified person on Friday verbally assaulted Rudaw reporter Mashallah Dekak while he was covering the visit of a Turkish political leader to Diyarbakir (Amed), southeast Turkey. The assailant tried to prevent Dekak from speaking in the Kurdish language.

If Kurdish civil war breaks out, Kurdistan Region will be the 'biggest loser'

Erbil and Sulaimani international airports are currently not ready for international flights due to lack of measures needed against coronavirus, the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) interior minister said late Tuesday.

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