Aziz Ahmad, deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Barzani, and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Cabinet Secretary Amanj Raheem met with US State Department officials on the sidelines of ...

In its first election in 1992, the Kurdistan Regional Parliament allocated five quota seats for Christians. In 2005, that quota increased to 11 seats for Christians, Turkmen and Assyrians.

The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq held elections this week, with around two million people turning out to vote. The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), which typically ...

At the center of the election is the debate over the Kurdistan Regional Government’s ... won 24 seats out of the region’s then 111 parliament seats, leading the PUK by six seats.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Lahur Talabany, leader of the People’s Front (Baray Gal), said on Wednesday that one of the ruling parties is deliberately stalling the formation of the new cabinet ...

One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq on Sunday ended a more than half-year boycott of regional government cabinet meetings with its main coalition partner, easing tensions between ...

In the Oct. 20 parliamentary elections, the KDP secured 39 seats, the PUK 23, the New Generation Movement 15, the Kurdistan Islamic Union (Yekgirtu) 7, and smaller groups won a total of 16 seats.

“Aziz Ahmad, deputy chief of staff to Prime Minister Barzani, and Kurdistan Regional Government Cabinet Secretary Amanj Raheem met with US State Department officials on the sidelines of Barzani ...

The KDP’s historical rival and junior coalition partner in government, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), came second in the October 20 elections with 23 seats, the commission said at a ...

The democratic legitimacy of political institutions in the Kurdistan Region is at stake. The Kurdistan Parliament is no longer sitting, and the current Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) cabinet is ...

BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The government of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on Thursday set February 25, 2024, as the date for the regional parliamentary elections. The decision was ...