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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.