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Iraq to trim Kurdish region's budget share
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraq's prime minister has defended a proposal to trim the self-ruled Kurdish region's share in next year's budget from 17 percent to 12.6 percent.
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Iran shuts border with northern Iraq
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iran has closed its border gates with northern Iraq in response to an independence referendum in Iraq's Kurdish region last month, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.
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Iraq Kurd fighters block roads to second city Mosul
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Kurdish peshmerga forces on Thursday blocked roads from Iraqi Kurdistan to the country's second city Mosul in response to Iraqi troop movements, a senior Kurdish military official said.
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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.
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Outlook of Syrian Kurds’ future
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Under the current conditions, the Syrian Kurds have transformed to one of the major actors on the Syria's political and field stage. Accounting for about 10 percent of Syrian population, the Kurdish minority is present in north of the country and governed by a self-administered local system that has since the start of the conflict united the three cantons of Island, Kobani, and Afrin.
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Iraqi Kurd leader delays independence vote announcement
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani delayed Saturday a scheduled news conference on a controversial independence referendum he has called for next week as international pressure mounts for a postponement.