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Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Some supporters of the Diyarbakir-based Kurdish football club, Amedspor, waved the Kurdistan flag and chanted “"Bijî Kurdistan" during the club’s match with the Turkish football club ...

The move is likely to further enflame tensions after the council last week voted in favour of raising the flag of Kurdistan on municipal buildings in the city, leading to public protests by the ...

Kirkuk's Kurdish-led council recently rejected calls from Baghdad to lower Kurdish flags Top government officials and political parties in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region have agreed to hold a ...