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Kurdish rebels declare truce with TurkeyThe Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared a "formal and clear ceasefire" with Turkey on Saturday after the rebels' jailed leader ordered an end to the decades-long armed campaign for autonomy. "S More… |
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Kurdish crude exports may reach 20,000 bpdDirect exports of crude oil from Kurdistan to Turkey may reach 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) in a few weeks, the chief executive of Genel Energy said, in a sign that a trade that officials in Baghdad see as illegal is set to grow. More… |
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More Kurd troops into standoff with Iraq armyIraq's Kurdish region has sent reinforcements to a disputed area where its troops are involved in a standoff with the Iraqi army, a senior Kurdish military official said, despite calls on both sides for dialogue to calm the situation. More… |
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Iraq begins initial $650m oil payment to KurdsIraq's Finance Ministry has begun paying an initial $650 million to Iraqi Kurdistan for oil companies working in the autonomous region, Deputy Prime Minister Rosh Nuri al-Shawish told Reuters on Tuesday. Baghdad and Kurdistan More… |
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Iraqi Kurds to sell gas directly to TurkeyIraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region may begin selling natural gas directly to Turkey within two years, said its energy minister, a move likely to anger the central government and further strain Baghdad's ties with Ankara. The Kurdistan R More… |
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Kurds say Exxon still working in N IraqThe government of Iraq's autonomous region believes Exxon Mobil has not suspended its work there, an aide to the Kurdish president said on Saturday. Iraq's oil minister said on Friday that Exxon had written to Baghdad informing it that it More… |
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Exxon Mobil freezes deal with KurdsIraq’s government has received a letter from Exxon Mobil saying the US oil major had frozen its deal with the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Iraq’s Oil Minister Abdul Kareem Luaibi said. The US company had angered Baghdad by s More… |
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Maliki tells Kurds to hand over VPIraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki on Wednesday called on Kurdish authorities to hand Sunni Vice President Tareq Al-Hashemi over to face charges his office had run death squads, a demand likely to further heighten sectarian tensi More… |
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Iran rejects PJAK ceasefire, wants withdrawalIran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday rejected a ceasefire declared by Kurdish rebel group PJAK as "meaningless" as long as PJAK forces remained on the borders of the Islamic Republic, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. PJAK (Par More… |
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Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish militantsTurkish war planes bombed Kurdish guerrilla positions in Iraq on Sunday, while in southeast Turkey insurgents killed two soldiers and two village militia members in separate weekend attacks. Fighters of the main Kurdish separatist militant More… |
