Al-monitor.com
Massoud Barzani, Iraqi Kurdistan president, said that regional authorities are awaiting the results of US mediation with the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who made the decision to cut off the region's [federal] budget. He stressed that if he becomes hopeless about the mediation, the region will have to rely on its own resources, holding Maliki responsible for any rupture [between Erbil and Baghdad] that may occur. He said that "cutting off the region's livelihood is almost as dangerous as the bombing of Halabja [in reference to the chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein in 1988]."
Rudaw.net - By Tessa Manuello
When Kurds fled the Middle East in large numbers after Turkey’s crackdown on its large Kurdish minority following the 1980 military coup and during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war, it was the Kurdish Institute of Paris that helped many of the intellectuals in the fleeing crowds settle in France.
Rudaw
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Many Iranian Kurds, who put their faith in Iran’s newly-elected President Hassan Rohani to push for greater rights for Iran’s minorities, are surprised at his recent TV interview, in which he said, “There is only one nation in Iran and that is structured by Islamic system.”
Al-monitor.com | Mustafa al-Kadhimi
Kurdistan Region of Iraq President Massoud Barzani's visit to Baghdad on July 7 carries many connotations. It also reflects an Iraqi environment favorable to dialogue, not only to resolve the problems between Erbil and Baghdad, but also to address the ongoing Iraqi crises at various levels.
Nytimes.com | Opinion | By KANAN MAKIYA | Published: April 6, 2013
ON April 9, 2003, Baghdad fell to an American-led coalition. The removal of Saddam Hussein and the toppling of a whole succession of other Arab dictators in 2011 were closely connected — a fact that has been overlooked largely because of the hostility that the Iraq war engendered.