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Saddam's deadly legacy: 40 years after war with Iran, border area is still littered with landmines
Yahoo Daily News 24 Dec 2020
The minefields in Mawat and the surrounding governorate of Sulaymaniyah are a grim example of how such weapons are used not just for military purposes, but to actively punish civilian populations ... In the years since, some 5,975 people have been killed in landmine accidents in Sulaymaniyah, and another 1,350 injured....
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Iraq: 8 killed in Sulaymaniyah protests
Middle East Monitor 11 Dec 2020
Eight people have been killed during ongoing protests over deteriorating living conditions and delayed salaries in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq since 3 December, the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights reported yesterday....
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Iraqi Kurdish security forces raid NRT headquarters, suspend broadcasts
CPJ 08 Dec 2020
The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan is the ruling party in Sulaymaniyah governorate and has its own security forces, but is the opposition party in Iraqi Kurdistan’s regional government, according to news reports....
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Hundreds of Iraq civil servants protest delayed salaries
Middle East Monitor 03 Dec 2020
Hundreds of civil servants yesterday demonstrated in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, in the northern Kurdistan region of Iraq, demanding ......
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How Mangled Dam Diplomacy Is Shaping Iraq’s Water Crisis
The Washington Institute 04 Nov 2020
Depleted flows in the Sirwan are now affecting over acres of farmland in the Sulaymaniyah Governorate alone ... According to the Darbandikhan Dam and Reservoir’s director in the KRI, around two million people rely on the two rivers in the Sulaymaniyah and Diyala governorates....
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Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Media Offices Shut Down
Human Rights 06 Oct 2020
Al-Rahman and the lawyer pointed out that NRT’s headquarters in Sulaymaniyah had not been closed down, which they said indicates that the decision to close the Erbil and Dohuk offices was political, as those governorates are controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party, while Sulaymaniyah is not....
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Iraq parliament calls for urgent action on drop in river flow from Iran
Middle East Monitor 25 Aug 2020
The Sirwan and Lower Zab rivers emanate from Iran and enter Iraq in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, in the northern Kurdistan region of the country ... that the move had seriously impacted the water reserves of the Darbandikhan and Dokan dams in the governorate of Sulaymaniyah....
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Economic crisis threatens stability of Kurdistan Region
Middle East Monitor 14 Aug 2020
Hundreds of citizens responded to the calls, as the city of Sulaymaniyah, the second largest governorate in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, witnessed widespread demonstrations in several regions on Wednesday ... Several areas in the Sulaymaniyah governorate also witnessed similar ......
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Scientists Think They Found the Only Guy Known to Get Killed by a Meteorite
Vice 01 May 2020
Digital copy of the first letter, sent by Mustafa Faik Mustafa Pasha, governor in Sulaymaniyah, to Ahmed Munir Pasha, who forwarded it to the Sultan ... An extremely bright light, accompanied by smoke, was seen at a village called “Dilaver,” which was located in eastern Sulaymaniyah....
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This unlucky fellow was the first person to have been killed by a meteorite in ...
Boing Boing 27 Apr 2020
Now though, researchers at Ege University, Trakya University, and the SETI Institute report that a fellow in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq is actually the first ... This event was also reported to Abdul Hamid II (34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire) by the governor of Sulaymaniyah....
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Peshmerga: Daesh formed new courts and imposed royalties in Iraq
Middle East Monitor 13 Apr 2020
On Tuesday, Daesh militants launched an attack on the Peshmerga forces in the Koljo district of the Sulaymaniyah Governorate, killing two Peshmerga members ... in a statement to reporters on the sidelines of his visit to the same district on the outskirts of Sulaymaniyah Governorate....
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Iraq announces four new cases of Coronavirus
Middle East Monitor 26 Feb 2020
Iraqi authorities in the country’s northern governorate of Kirkuk yesterday suspended schools and universities across the ... In a similar move, the local authorities at the Sulaymaniyah governorate were reported to have suspended schools “for 26 days as a precaution.”....
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Barzani: ‘All parties must be represented in new Iraqi government’
Middle East Monitor 12 Feb 2020
The statement pointed out ... Read. Iran reopens consulate burned by protesters Iraq. After Alhakim met with Kurdish officials in Erbil, he went to the city of Sulaymaniyah, to inaugurate his ministry’s there, and comply with political figures as well as the administration of the governorate ... .......
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