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The media landscape in Iraq's Kurdistan Region is dominated by outlets affiliated with political parties. As a result, media coverage largely promotes the interests of politically motivated patrons, rather than performing a public service mission of providing impartial and high-quality information.

The New Arab reached out to KRG's spokesperson, the head of the KRG foreign relations office, the leader of the KRP's diwan and the spokesperson of the three ruling parties, but all did not answer requests for comments about Israel's new war on Gaza.

Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Monday also arrested two Kurdish journalists without legal warrants and filed two new charges against an imprisoned journalist. 

Iraq's top court ruled out against the federal government in Baghdad sending payments to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

Iraqi Kurdistan's opposition has slammed parliament and the three Kurdish ruling parties for 'illegally' extending parliament's mandate by a year after an election scheduled for earlier this month was shelved.

Iraqi Kurdistan's opposition has slammed parliament and the three Kurdish ruling parties for 'illegally' extending parliament's mandate by a year after an election scheduled for earlier this month was shelved.

The main parties in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq have met at a high level amidst divisions and difficulties to form the government many months after the elections.

Beyond the elite: Taking protest and public opinion seriously in the Kurdistan Region February 24, 2021 Share In early December 2020, at least eight people were killed and hundreds of others were injured during violent protests in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) sparked by deteriorating economic conditions and the government’s failure to pay public sector salaries. Seven of the dead, including a 13-year-old boy, were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators. The offic...