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Angry relatives of COVID-19 patient attack Baghdad hospital after deadly power outage The Iraqi capital of Baghdad. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Following the death of a relative being treated for COVID-19 at a northern Baghdad hospital, Iraqi police announced on Sunday that several angry male family members had attacked the facility. Roughly 10 gunmen stormed al-Kindi Hospital following the death of four coronavirus patients who suffocated when the ventilators they relied on to breathe shut down as a result of the nation's chronic power outages, a security source told A...

Committee to Protect Journalists calls on officials in northeast Syria to reverse Kurdistan 24 ban ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a leading international media rights organization, called on the Kurdish-led local administration in northeastern Syria to reverse its recent decision to close down Kurdistan 24's news bureau, claiming that there was little to no evidence the outlet had acted inappropriately or unprofessionally enough to warrant such an extreme move. On Sunday, security forces belonging to the Democratic Union Party (PYD) forcibly shut down the...

Two rocket attacks in one hour target central Iraqi military bases ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Roughly an hour after an Iraqi military airbase north of Baghdad that houses US military contractors was targeted in a rocket attack late Wednesday evening, at least one additional rocket was fired at another base inside the compound of Baghdad International Airport. The Iraqi military press office known as the Security Media Cell said in a statement that the first facility, Balad Airbase, was targeted by three rockets that caused no casualties or material losses. Balad previously housed a small unit o...

KRG receives first wheat crop directly from farmers instead of through Baghdad    5 Hours In 2020, the KRG established an agricultural program that includes several phases, the first of which will oversee 100,000 tons of wheat to be marketed by state companies and others working with them. (Photo: Archive) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced on Wednesday that, for the first time in the autonomous region's history, it had received a batch of this year's wheat crop directly from local growers and farmers instead of it being delivered to the ...

Leaders of Kurdistan Region, Flanders pledge to boost trade at meeting in Brussels    3 Hours Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani meets in Brussels with Jan Jambon, Minister-President of Flanders, June 9, 2021. (Photo: KRG) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met on Wednesday in Brussels with the leader of Flanders, the northern Dutch-speaking region of Belgium, where both pledged to strengthen trade and diplomatic cooperation.  "There is a great similarity between the experience of our region and the Kurdistan Region," Minister...