Iraq should be exempted from OPEC oil output freeze - minister

Edit Yahoo Daily News 23 Oct 2016
By Maher Chmaytelli ... The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed in Algiers on Sept ... OPEC says it pumped 33.39 million bpd in September ... 30 ... Last month's total includes 546,000 bpd from the Kurdish self-rule region (KRG) of northern Iraq, he said. Total exports for September, including the KRG, were 3.871 million bpd, of which 3.276 million bpd were shipped from the southern ports, he said....

Mosul streets will see person by person fight: KRG official

Edit Press TV 22 Oct 2016
A senior official from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has welcomed news that residents of Mosul have risen against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists, saying the Iraqi city is likely to witness a “person by person” fight ... the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) ... So it will be a fight, person by person,” the KRG official stated....

Abadi resists US push for Turkish role in Mosul battle

Edit Press TV 22 Oct 2016
Also on Saturday, Interior Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Karim Sinjari said Iraqi forces were five kilometers away from Mosul, adding that there were strong indications of public uprising against Daesh in the city.The interior minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Karim Sinjari....

‘Historic partnership between Kurdistan Region and US continues’

Edit Kurdistan24 22 Oct 2016
Brett McGurk along with the KRG officials visited a hospital in Erbil where wounded Peshmerga were treated, October 22, 2016. (Photo. Kurdistan24) ... ....

The Oklahoman's commercial property sales for Oct. 22, 2016

Edit The Oklahoman 22 Oct 2016
CBRE reports these real estate transactions. ... •KCI USA Inc ... Mark W ...Tatum Fitness LLC, doing business as Pure Barre, leased 1,400 square feet of retail space from KRG Norman University LLC, care of Kite Realty, at University Town Center, 1500 24 Ave ... •ARK Resources LLC, doing business as European Wax, leased 1,350 square feet of retail space from KRG Norman University LLC, care of Kite Realty, at University Town Center, 1500 24 Ave ... ....

Iraq/KRG: Displaced People Can’t Move Freely (HRW - Human Rights Watch)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Oct 2016
Iraqi and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) authorities should revoke unlawful restrictions on free movement of internally displaced people, including those displaced as a result of the ongoing fight in Mosul ... In March 2016, KRG forces and forces mobilized by the Iraqi government in Baghdad began military operations aimed at defeating ISIS in Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city and the major remaining ISIS stronghold in Iraq....

Kurdish Forces Down Daesh Intelligence Drone East of Iraq's Mosul City

Edit Sputnik 21 Oct 2016
The Kurdish militia downed an intelligence drone of Daesh terrorist group to the east of the Iraqi city of Mosul, a spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) Ministry of Peshmerga said on Friday ... ....

Step by step, peshmerga turn the screw on ISIL

Edit The National 21 Oct 2016
Nawaran, Iraq // On the outskirts of the small hamlet of Nawaran, the rising sun reveals to the peshmerga the villages that dot the lush plain stretching to the horizon ... The territories they seize will fall to the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), its officials say, as part of a deal made with Baghdad to secure Kurdish help in the Mosul campaign ... The belief that they are fighting for Kurdistan fires the patriotism of the men....

How the 'Kurdish question' complicates the anti-ISIS alliance

Edit CNN 20 Oct 2016
But across the border in Iraq, Turkey enjoys a close relationship with the semi-autonomous Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in the north ... It even has at least 1,000 troops stationed in northern Iraq, training police and volunteers for anti-ISIS operations with the blessing of the KRG -- and much to the annoyance of Iraq's central government, another vital US ally ... Will Turkey's strike on Syrian Kurds affect relationship with KRG?....

City ravaged by 13 years of war braces itself for next chapter of savagery

Edit The Times of India 19 Oct 2016
Mosul has been a dangerous place since the US-led invasion of 2003 ... The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) claimed parts of Nineveh province around Mosul which it said had a Kurdish majority or had historically belonged to the Kurds ... Few of these communities had any liking for the others ... I would travel from Irbil in KRG to visit the Kurdish deputy governor whose well-fortified office was on the far side of the Tigris river ... RELATED....

Amnesty International: Iraqi forces must not repeat 'war crimes' in Mosul offensive

Edit CNN 18 Oct 2016
(CNN)Human rights group Amnesty International has accused Iraqi forces and paramilitary groups of torture and unlawful killings in their battles against ISIS and warned that revenge attacks and rights violations must not be repeated in the operation to free Mosul ... Daesh is the Arabic acronym for ISIS. JUST WATCHED ... Replay ... A KRG spokesman confirmed that some officials had been punished for the sort of offenses listed by Amnesty ... Photos ... ....

The battle for Mosul is a struggle for Iraq itself

Edit The National 16 Oct 2016
Turkey fears that the dominance of Hashd Al Shaabi in this city, which consists of predominantly Turkomans, including around 30 per cent Shia, could be used as a station to challenge the influence of Turkey and its allies in the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) ... The KRG supports the Turkish troops' presence, while four opposition Kurdish parties condemned it....
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