Residents of an upscale project in Erbil are angry by the management’s decision to dispose of stray cats by allegedly shoving them into garbage bags, condemning the act as “animal cruelty” and calling for the decision to be annulled.

The Iraqi government on Monday announced it has submitted a letter of protest to the UN Security Council over Israel's "flagrant violation" of Iraq's sovereignty by using its airspace to attack Iran two days prior.

Turkey late Wednesday said it launched strikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) targets in the Kurdistan Region and Syria after blaming them for an attack that killed five people at a defense company in Ankara.

The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) emerged victorious in the Kurdistan Region’s parliamentary elections and scored over 800,000 votes across all provinces, preliminary results from Iraq’s electoral body showed Monday. The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and New Generation Movement followed.

The Kurdistan Region is set to head to the polls on Sunday to vote in its repeatedly-delayed parliamentary election with 1,191 candidates vying for a spot in the 100-seat legislature.

Iraq is at the “forefront” of Arab countries defending against aggression with Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon violating human rights and international law, an advisor to the prime minister said on Monday as Baghdad attempts to steer clear of regional conflict.

The UAE-based Dana Gas on Tuesday announced that its consortium Pearl Petroleum has begun legal proceedings against Enerflex, a gas industry supplier, over performance issues it claimed led to delays at a Khor Mor gas field expansion project in the Kurdistan Region.

The Turkish army has advanced 15 kilometers deep into the Kurdistan Region’s territory and carried out hundreds of strikes as part of its new military operation targeting Kurdish fighters, a conflict monitor said on Sunday.

A survivor of the deadly shipwreck off the coast of Italy decried on Wednesday that their screams for help were ignored by several boats that passed close by, with two capsized ships in the Mediterranean leaving at least 70 dead and missing.

The Kurdistan Region’s ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) has informed Iraq’s electoral commission of its willingness to participate in the upcoming Kurdistan parliamentary elections, the commission told Rudaw on Sunday, paving the way for the vote to be held after repeated delays.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was confirmed dead in a Sunday helicopter crash in a mountainous region of northwestern Iran, state media said.

Iran’s foreign minister on Wednesday doubled down on claims that the deadly Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) strikes on Erbil targeted bases of the Israeli intelligence despite Iraqi and Kurdish authorities’ categorical denial of such claims. His Iraqi counterpart strongly denied the accusations and condemned Tehran’s “aggression”.

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