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: Iraq's parliament approves draft bill that expels American soldiers from the country permanently.
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#Syrian
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#Egyptian
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#Trending
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LATEST:
#Iran
’s deputy health minister Irraj Harirchi confirms he has contracted
#coronavirus
, been placed in quarantine.
Footage from a press release held on Monday shows the deputy minister sweating excessively.
More on this soon!
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#ShifaGardi
who was killed by a roadside bomb 2day in
#Mosul
,rescued a wounded rabbit in a village south of of the city as she was reporting
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Kurds in
#Kurdistan
Region’s Erbil city throw rocks to retreating U.S. soldiers from northern Syria, “Fuck you” repeatedly heard.
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The 2022 Shifa Gardi Award was awarded to BBC journalist Lyse Doucet, who is renowned as a foreign correspondent in some of the toughest war zones.
READ MORE:
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US Vice President Mike Pence discusses his unannounced visit to
#Iraq
and the
#Kurdistan
Region
📸 AP
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#Rudaw
: Journalism remains male-dominated — Shifa Gardi broke those perceptions & stereotypes — we pay tribute to her courageous journalism.
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#BREAKING
: U.S. President Donald Trump threatens big sanctions on Iraq if American soldiers are forced to leave.
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#BREAKING
: Turkish drones target a Syrian regime forces meeting in Aleppo, killing several soldiers including Brigadier Burhan Rahmun commander of the 124th Republican Guard - Rudaw reporter
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#BREAKING
: A convoy of foreign journalists and civilians reportedly struck by a Turkish jet on Sunday afternoon, local media reports
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Emad alRokeby, Egyptian police officer paid the ultimate sacrifice to prevent suicide-bomber from entering St. Mark’s Church in
#Alexandria
.
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Rudaw’s war reporter Hunar Ahmed attempts to help civilians attacked by Hashd al-Shaabi in
#Kirkuk
.
#KurdistanBlockade
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Young girl takes Niqab off as she reaches safety of
#Peshmerga
forces, having fled
#ISIS
tyranny.
#MosulOffensive
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Women liberated from
#ISIS
controlled areas take off their veils and burn them in defiance.
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“U.S. President
@realDonaldTrump
was not born then – that is why he does not know that the Kurds participated in the war”
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Outside our main office in Erbil city, hundreds pay respect to our beloved Shifa Gardi.
#Rudaw
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A protester in Kirkuk waves the Kurdish flag as unrest continues in the city with Kurdish protesters angry over the blockage of the main Kirkuk-Erbil road
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Suspect arrested in Tara Fares murder, hours after Abadi demanded action
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A young woman dances around a fire and burns her Hijab in a symbolic gesture against the killing of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini in Sari, the provincial capital of Mazandaran Province.
#IranProtests
🎥 Human rights activists
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#BREAKING
: Israeli PM
@Netanyahu
cancels Senegal FM’s visit to the country and cancels Israeli aid to Senegal following
#UNSC
decision.
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This is the other policewoman that was killed while guarding Coptic church in Alexandria, her name is Nagwa El-Haggar.
#Egypt
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#BREAKING
: Kurdistan President Masoud Barzani claims victory for 'yes' vote in independence referendum
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#BREAKING
: Indonesian police arrest 18-year-old suspected of attempting to behead priest in terror attack.
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BREAKING: SDF Commander-in Chief Mazloum Abdi announces that ISIS official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir has been killed in Turkish-controlled Jarablus through "direct cooperation" with US forces
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Locals in Duhok play Ey Raqib - the Kurdish national anthem - during a protest on Tuesday expressing solidarity with Kurds in Kirkuk and against Baghdad's failure to deliver the required financial entitlements of the Kurdistan Region.
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#Rudaw
reporter and anchor
#ShifaGardi
, described as brave, role model for women killed by roadside bomb in
#Mosul
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#BREAKING
: Kirkuk youth attack Iraqi police, throwing shoes at them, pulling Iraqi flag down.
#KurdistanBlockade
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U.S. soldiers working with Kurdish-led SDF forces in Rmelan oilfield area, northern
#Syria
, “we are going to continue our presence here.”
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#BREAKING
The Secretary-General of the Future Syria Party, Havrin Khalaf, died today after her car was targeted by Turkish forces, according to Rudaw's reporter in northern Syria.
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#BREAKING
: Iraq's Muqtada al-Sadr sends a stern message to the Iraqi parliament, and says "close down the U.S. embassy, remove U.S. troops from military bases" and calls for the creation of a global resistance axis.
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Protests are ongoing outside the United Nations building in
#Kurdistan
Region’s Erbil city in solidarity with the Kurds of
#Rojava
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Do you think the US-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen is responsible for the attempted coup in
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#Kurdistan
Region’s Masoud Barzani tweets, “Dear President Trump, please know that the people of Kurdistan have always pursued their just rights. The Peshmerga have defeated ISIS [...] The blood of the Kurds is far more valuable than money and weapons.”
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#BREAKING
: 6 dead in US airstrikes targeting Iraqi militia convoy north of Baghdad- Reuters
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On the fourth anniversary of the Turkish occupation of the Kurdish city of Sari Kani (Ras al-Ain) in northeast Syria, there are now less than 50 Kurds left in the city which was home to around 80,000 Kurds less than two decades ago.
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People in
#Kurdistan
Region’s Sulaimani city stage protest in solidarity with the people of Rojava as Turkish military conducts ground and air operation in northern
#Syria
(📹 Haroun Ismail).
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Iraqi President
@BarhamSalih
speaks in
#Kurdish
during his
#UNGA19
speech, addressing world leaders.
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Civilians rush to withdraw money from ATM machines in
#Turkey
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Birdsong is the only sound at
#Erbil
citadel on Saturday as
#coronavirus
lockdown clears traffic and shoppers.
Video: submitted
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Masrour Barzani, Chancellor of Kurdistan’s Regional Security Council, speaks about Kurdistan
#referendum
in Washing…
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Excited students in the Kurdish province of Amed (Diyarbakir) in Turkey surrounded Rudaw TV reporter on Monday, preventing him from finishing his coverage of a campaign that encourages Kurdish students to register for Kurmanji & Zazaki elective lessons.
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Kurdish man feeling betrayed ,protesting outside US consulate "we want America and Israel to come. They promised us..but the are liars."
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#IraqProtests
: “We want a new Iraq, a country we believe in, we want reassurance, democracy, and freedom.”
🚨Live blog:
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#BREAKING
: Turkey’s military launches fierce offensive inside Syria, targeting key government positions as deadline set by Turkish President Erdogan comes to an end.
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Iran appears to spread misinformation to justify attacks on Erbil
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“We are here for the mourning ceremony of a great commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who was a friend of the people of Iraq and a friend of the Kurds in different stages” — KDP official, Fazil Mirani attends memorial service in
#Erbil
city for Qassem Soleimani.
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The governor of
#Kirkuk
urges people to take up arms to protect the city against Shiite Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraqi army.
#KurdistanBlockade
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#BREAKING
: Zhina Peshraw Dizayee is the youngest victim of the IRGC attack on Erbil, killed alongside her father just ten days before her first birthday.
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SDF commander Redur Khalil issues statement: ‘We were betrayed and disappointed by our friends [...] we are currently fighting two battles, one against ISIS and one defending ourselves against
#Turkey
.’
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Syrian artist Milad Fawaz paints a three-dimensional crosswalk to stop cars from speeding in the town of Amuda, northeastern
#Syria
's Hasakah province on July 21.
Video submitted to Rudaw.
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Interview with Masrour Barzani, national security advisor of the Kurdistan Region
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Footage shows the moment
#Turkish
warplanes targeted a convoy of foreign journalists and civilians en route Sari Kani from Tel Tammar on Sunday afternoon, where an estimated 19 people were killed.
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The Kurdish city of Amed (Diyarbakir) in southeast Turkey on Thursday hosted a massive Kurdish New Year (Newroz) celebration.
📸: Murat Bulut/Rudaw
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#BREAKING
: Qais al-Khazali, General Secretary of Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq group says Iraqi government can rely on China and Russia for military training and assistance after the U.S. withdrawal.
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#Germany
: Sea of Kurdistani flags at Cologne festival, supporting the upcoming independence referendum.
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Four
#Kurdish
flags, 65 meters in length, have been draped across the mountains of Akre amid Newroz celebrations.
Photos by Bilind T. Abdullah/ Rudaw
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U.S. trained Iraqi soldier puts boots on the flag of United States, Kurdistan and Germany in
#Kirkuk
.
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"What is the difference between Gaza and Erbil?" questions one of the protesters gathered outside the United Nations office in Erbil a day after IRGC missiles struck the Kurdistan Region's capital.
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The
#Kurdish
women’s armed group in northern Syria issue an urgent plea for international help to save one of their fighters, captured by Turkish-backed militias
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Kurdish residents of Afrin city in northern Syria on Friday warmly welcomed trucks carrying humanitarian aid from the Kurdistan Region.
Afrin, which is occupied by Turkey and its Syrian mercenaries, was among provinces hit by a disastrous earthquake on Monday.
📹: BCF
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#BREAKING
: Peshmerga troops deploys large number of reinforcements to Altun Kupri, which is about 50 km south of
#Erbil
.
#KurdistanBlockade
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Governor of Erbil, Firsat Sofi has died of coronavirus at Memorial hospital in Ankara - Family statement
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Kurds in
#Iran
’s Tehran city rally in support of Rojava and against the Turkish incursion of northern Syria with slogans, “Even if one Kurd lives,
#Kurdistan
will remain.”
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