The Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan heads the Kurdistan Regional Government, the government of Iraq's Kurdistan Autonomous Region.

Why not in Iraqi Kurdistan?

After 1996, 13 of the Iraqi oil sales were allocated for Iraqi Kurdistan and this led to a relative prosperity in the region.

Widespread economic activity between Iraqi Kurdistan and Turkey has given the opportunity for Turks to seek jobs in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Religion Iraqi Kurdistan has a diverse religious population.

There are at least 2 military airfields in Iraqi Kurdistan.

(By contrast, reconstruction in Iraqi Kurdistan is occurring at breakneck speed.)

After withdrawing its forces from Kurdistan in October 1991, the Iraqi government imposed an economic blockade over the region, restricting its oil and food supplies.

The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

Iraqi Kurdistan has opened its doors to the international world by opening two international airports.

By land, Iraqi Kurdistan can be reached most easily by Turkey through the Habur Border Gate which is the only border gate between Kurdistan and Turkey.

1992 2005 After the Iraqi Kurdistan legislative election, 1992 resulted in the two main parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan winning 50 out of 100 seats they decided to move on without President.

The first international school, the International School of Choueifat opened its branch in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2006.

Moreover, the chances that Iraqi Kurdistan will achieve de facto or de jure independence are greater than ever.

The Turkish military, however, oppose a high level dialogue with Iraqi Kurds on the grounds that the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK), headed by Massoud Barzani, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, support the PKK materially and politically.

Born in al Qamishli, in 1974, Kamiran Shemdin published his cartoons in Aljazeera website and Ge P magazine in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Security forces recently intercepted suicide bombers entering Iraqi Kurdistan from Iran, with, Kurdish leaders believe, the support and training of Iranian intelligence.

Erbil International Airport , is the main airport of Erbil city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Iraqi Kurdistan has two border gates with Iran, the Haji Omaran border gate and the Bashmeg border gate near the city of Sulaymaniyah.

As a result Iraqi government extended its control over the northern region after 15 years and in order to secure its influence, started an Arabization program by moving Arabs to the vicinity of oil fields in Kurdistan, particularly those around Kirkuk.

Duhok International Airport is an international airport under construction in the Kurdistan Autonomous Region in northern Iraq.

Yazidis are an Iraqi ethno religious minority, who fled their homes in the ancient town Sinjar close to Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan and the Iraq Syria border, after militants from the Islamic State (IS also known as ISIS) defeated Kurdish forces there on Sunday.

UNHCR also included in its activities other institutions, such as the Iraqi Property Claims Commission and the Kurdistan Regional Government, as well as NGOs and other partners.

After applying a reform in the Kurdistan Region in 2010, the structure of the UoD has changed to a Faculty System.

Iraqi army units continue to assume security responsibility in the western region.

Salih Al Yousify (January, 1918 25 June 1981) was a Kurdish Iraqi politician, former minister, and one of the most active members in the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Iraq.

The Kurdistan Communist Party Iraq (, ) is a Kurdish political party, formed in 1993 when the Iraqi Communist Party branch in the Kurdish areas was formed into a separate party.

A Referendum For Kurdistan?

Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party is a political party in Iraq that currently has two seats in the Kurdistan National Assembly.

Immigration Since the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurdistan has witnessed massive immigration from the rest of Iraq (particularly from Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandeans, Shabaks and Roma), as well as from South Asia.

After installing the KDP in control of Erbil, Iraqi troops withdrew from the Kurdish region back to their initial positions.

Of course, Turkey remains opposed to an independent Kurdistan.

It is a splinter of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq. The grand vision is to integrate Iraqi Kurdistan into the Turkish economy.

In that regard, France welcomes the prospects of an Iraqi national conference organized with the assistance of countries in the region to promote the integration of all Iraqi groups and communities into the political process.

West Azerbaijan, Khuzestan, Kermanshah, Kurdistan, Fars, Lorestan, Hormozgan and Bushehr.

Kurdish prime minster says kurdistan is open to refugees from mosul.

Eighth Collection of Poems, Dîwana heştem Aştî , Kurdistan Publishers, 1985 Stockholm.

Bapir is a former member of the Islamic Movement of Kurdistan.

The government is elected as part of the Kurdistan National Assembly.

High in the mountains of northeastern Iraq s Kurdistan region, wildlife conservationist Hana Ahmed Raza and a team of researchers with the non governmental organization Nature Iraq are working to protect the ghost like Persian leopard.

Ziviyeh District () is a district (bakhsh) in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran.

Authority The Ministry directs all the Iraqi Armed Forces, comprising a Joint Headquarters, the Iraqi Ground Forces Command (which controls the Army), the Iraqi Special Operations Forces, the Iraqi Army, the Iraqi Navy (including Marines), and the Iraqi Air Force.

The Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (), abbreviated as PDKI, KDPI is a Kurdish political party in Iranian Kurdistan which seeks the attainment of Kurdish national rights within a democratic federal republic of Iran.

The program currently airs on DW Arabia and the Kurdistan based NRT Arabia.