Kurdish Referendum

Iraqi PM reopens Kurdish airports to international flights

The announcement comes some six months after the airports were initially shut to international flights following a controversial referendum vote in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region.
2018-03-13 12:46
Iraqi Federal Court rules Kurdistan secession referendum unconstitutional

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraq’s Supreme Federal Court ruled on Monday that the Sept. 25 Kurdish independence referendum was unconstitutional and the results void, a court spokesman said.
2017-11-20 14:47
Iraqi PM Abadi demands annulment not freeze of KRG referendum

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said he would only accept the annulment of the Kurdistan independence referendum, not the freeze that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) proposed to Iraq.
2017-10-26 13:45
Kurdish Referendum, three risks causing Turkish antipathy

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The late September Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum has given rise to wide range of speculations on how the regional actors will react. The Turkish reaction, meanwhile, has been given more focus and debate among responses by others.
2017-10-17 17:50
Iraq court orders arrest of Kurd separation vote organizers

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - An Iraqi court on Wednesday ordered the arrest of the chairwoman and two other members of the commission that organized last month’s vote for Kurdish separation, a judicial official said.
2017-10-11 18:05
Sayyed Nasrallah: Kurdish Vote Regional Threat

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah delivered Saturday a speech in which he tackled various internal and regional topics.
2017-10-01 07:55
Iraq hail Grand Ayatollah Sistani's stance on Kurdish referendum

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The office of Iraq’s prime minister and also the head of the country’s National Wisdom Stream hailed top Shiite Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s opposition to the semi-autonomous Kurdish region’s moves for secession from Iraq.
2017-09-30 17:58
Kirkuk governor declares overnight curfew after Kurdish independence vote

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The head of police department in Iraq’s northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk says the governor has imposed a curfew following the closing of polls in a controversial referendum on the independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region from the central government in Baghdad.
2017-09-25 19:41
Kurdish independence referendum war against Iraq’s unity: Maliki

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraqi Vice-President Nouri al-Maliki said the move by Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region to hold an independence vote is tantamount to a war waged against the Arab country’s unity.
2017-09-25 15:26
Why Israeli support for Kurdish independence referendum?

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his last week visit of the Latin American countries and talks with the Argentina president supported establishment of an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq, and said that Tel Aviv backed the aspirations of the Iraqi Kurds for statehood.
2017-09-24 18:35
Barzani sends his family to UAE amid referendum

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A number of Barzani family members have been heading towards the UAE from Erbil upon the official invitation of Abu Dhabi Crown Prince.
2017-09-23 19:30
Iraq’s major Shiite Party opposed to Kurdish referendum

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraq’s Islamic Dawa Party, a major Shiite party, underlined its opposition to an independence referendum planned to be held by the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region on September 25.
2017-09-23 18:45