Abdullah Rasoul News Today

Following pressures from a visiting senior US delegation to the Iraqi Kurdistan region, both the main ruling parties have eased nearly six months of political and security tensions.

Senior Iraqi and Kurdish authorities met on Wednesday in Baghdad in a bid to deal with longstanding issues between the Iraqi federal government and the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.

In the wake of the killing of a counter-terrorism officer in early October, conflicts escalated between the two main Kurdish ruling parties in the Iraqi Kurdistan region.