TEHRAN, January 2 - Iran’s two border crossings with Iraqi Kurdistan region have resumed their operations following an announcement by the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the director general of the Interior Ministry’s border affairs department said.
TEHRAN, December 28 - Iraqi authorities have extended for two more months an international flight ban on the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region amid tensions between the Baghdad government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the wake of the September controversial Kurdish independence referendum.
TEHRAN, December 20 - The parliament speaker of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan resigns amid fatal protests against the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
TEHRAN, December 19 - Kurdish security forces have fatally shot five protesters in Iraq's semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan as demonstrations continue there amid widespread anger over unpaid salaries and corruption.
TEHRAN, November 9 - The Central Bank of Iraq has ordered private banks to halt their branches’ operations in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region within a week to avoid a ban on dollar sales.
TEHRAN, October 30 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called for “calm” and “adherence to law” in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region following an outbreak of riot there after Massoud Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s president, announced that he would effectively step down early next month.
TEHRAN, October 28 - Federal Iraqi forces peacefully taken control of all border crossings ringing the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) following an agreement with Kurdish authorities.
TEHRAN, October 25 - Kurdistan Region’s local government issued a formal statement on Wednesday for the suspension of the Kurdish recession referendum.
TEHRAN, October 25 - The Iranian consulate in Erbil announced that Bashmagh border with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) reopens as of today October 25.
TEHRAN, October 23 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will visit Turkey on Wednesday to discuss potential joint steps against northern Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government following last month's independence referendum, Turkish prime ministry sources said.
TEHRAN, October 22 - Like Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have supported the Iraqi Kurdistan region’s push for secession in an attempt to “clip the wings” of Turkey, Iran and Iraq, a report said.
TEHRAN, October 19 - An Iraqi court issued an arrest warrant for the vice president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), accusing him of provocation against the Arab country’s armed forces, which managed to take over Kirkuk province earlier this week.
TEHRAN, October 18 - Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has decided to postpone the presidential and legislative elections in the northern semi-autonomous region amid spiraling tensions with the Baghdad government in the wake of last month’s Kurdish independence referendum and a dire ‘threat of civil war’ there.
TEHRAN, October 15 - Kurdish leaders dismissed the Iraqi government’s demand that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) annul the results of last month’s independence referendum in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region.
TEHRAN, October 15 - Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said no new development has occurred as to Iran’s border with Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
TEHRAN, October 11 - A top Iraqi court has issued arrest warrants for the elections and referendum commission chairman of the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region and his two aides over the controversial September 25 referendum on Kurdish independence from the rest of the Iraqi territory.
TEHRAN, October 9 - Iraq’s central government has launched a probe into the the hefty oil revenues of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)
TEHRAN, October 9 - The Iraqi government has decided to impose control over mobile phone operators in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region and to relocate their headquarters to Baghdad as part of punitive measures taken in response to last month’s secession referendum in the region.