A seven-year audit (2019 - 2025) of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) finance data reflects a stark structural imbalance in how wealth is generated and spent across its provinces. While Duhok province drives the Region's non-oil economy - generating an average of 41 percent of domestic revenue via vital trade corridors - it receives a mere…

Some catastrophes announce themselves. They come with explosions, with tanks, and with the thunder of history. The Kurdistan Region has known this kind of violence for decades, better than most countries in the world. Few societies have endured so many wars, forced displacement, and political collapse. Yet anyone who walks today through the…

The girl could not have been older than 12. Sitting on a simple plastic chair in a refugee camp near Duhok, she spoke with a calmness that seemed entirely out of place for someone her age. As she described how fighters of the so-called Islamic State had torn her family apart, she never once looked directly at the reporter sitting across from…

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Pearl Petroleum has proposed a $10.2 billion capital investment plan spanning from 2026 to 2035 with aims of more than doubling its natural gas production in the Kurdistan Region. According to the company's latest report, the Kurdistan Gas Project 10-year expansion plan estimates an increase in production from 750…

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - When remarks attributed to Turkish businessman Rahmi Koc about Kurdish women recently sparked public debate, the controversy appeared, at first glance, to concern little more than a single statement. Yet the intensity of the reaction suggested something deeper. Public disputes of this kind rarely revolve around an…

June 6th marks the United Nations’ Russian Language Day. On this occasion, one can’t help but remember the words of Ivan Turgenev (1818 - 1883), a major 19th-century Russian novelist and playwright, who once said, “In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country’s fate, you alone are my comfort and support,…

In the month of May, the Kurdistan Region is covered in lush greenery. Thousands of miles away, Beijing is equally vibrant as a notable wave of diplomatic activity unfolds. Within a single week, US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited China consecutively, drawing global attention. Steering the course Trump held…