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	US energy giant Chevron signs oil deal with Iraqi Kurdistan BAGHDAD,— US energy giant Chevron has signed another oil exploration deal in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, it said on Monday, one of several contracts between Kurds and foreign energy firms that have enraged Baghdad. The contract to explore the Qara Dagh field, in the south of the three-province region, is Chevron's third with Kurdish officials, who have signed a swathe of contracts with international oil companies to boost exploration and production of energy. Iraq's central government, however, has slammed the deals as illegal on the grounds that they were not approved by the... Read More » For Syrian Kurds, Iraqi Kurdistan's camp offers wildly different fates DOMIZ CAMP, Duhok, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Abdulhamid sells ice cream to passersby at Domiz, Iraq's biggest camp for refugees fleeing violence in Syria, while Sidra reads an Arabic copy of "The Fox and The Crow" in class. Little but luck appears to have separated the youths' fates -- they both arrived with their families from their war-torn homeland in April. Sidra now finds herself in a classroom fashioned out of a prefabricated container while Abdulhamid is forced to sell his wares to pay for his father's medication. The stark difference in outcomes between the two children illustrates a... Read More » Kurdistan Region-Iraq News in brief. June 18, 2013 Hungary intends to open Representation in Kurdistan Region: Erbil: Hungary's Ambassador to Iraq, Taybour Zatmari, said that his country intends to open a Representation in Kurdistan Region, and looks to strengthen economic relations with it. A statement issued on Monday, June 17, by the Government of Kurdistan Region said that in his first visit to the Region, the Hungarian Ambassador met with the Region's Head of Foreign Relations Department, Falah Mustafa, who expressed pleasure for Hungary's interests to consolidate its relations with Kurdistan Region. The statement quoted the Ambassador... Read More » Western Kurdistan: Kurds fight for place in Syrian civil war BEIRUT,— Taking advantage of the chaos of the civil war, Syria's Kurdish minority has carved out a once unthinkable degree of independence in their areas, creating their own police forces, even their own license plates, and exuberantly going public with their language and culture. But by pursuing their own path distinct from both the opposition and the regime, they are also colliding with Sunni rebels, who have increasingly clashed with Kurdish militiamen. Rebels have besieged a pocket of Kurdish towns and villages in the mainly Sunni Arab corner of northwest Syria for weeks, leading... Read More » Iraqi Kurdistan opposition parties look forward to provincial polls SLÊMANÎ, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Even though the Kurdistan Region's September polls are likely to be postponed, opposition groups are confident they will win the majority of votes in the next provincial elections, particularly in Slêmanî (Sulaimaniyah) province. The leader of the Change Movement (Gorran) Nawshirwan Mustafa raised the hopes of opposition politicians after he told members and supporters of his group last week, "We want to get into power in order to put our agenda into practice." It is likely that Kurdistan's parliamentary, presidential and provincial elections, that were initially... Read More » New President, Same Iran? By Hiwa Osman: The United States, Britain and their Western allies appear to have taken a collective sigh of relief following the landslide victory of moderate Hassan Rouhani in Iran's presidential election. The Western powers are clinging to the sliver of hope that Rouhani, 62, will address Western and regional concerns about Iran's controversial nuclear program, which has been a serious international headache for years. They also would like to see him improve political and human rights. But the West is failing to understand Rouhani's standing and power inside the core establishment: Among the... Read More »
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