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In Iraq’s summer, residents of Kurdistan’s Arbil ache for water
Boys cool off with water from a mobile tanker as summer temperatures soar in Iraq’s northern autonomous Kurdish region — Safin HAMID The taps have run dry, and the wells are almost empty. In the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, 80-year-old Babir hasn’t bathed in weeks and impatiently waits for trucked-in water deliveries. “There […]
Kurdish journalist told the IKHRW: KRG is in deep crises
Economic corruption in the Kurdish region has emptied the treasury. The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) emerged with the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and became official in the Iraqi constitution. Even before that, and since 1991, the region has been practically under Kurdish control. For about 29 years, it has been governed by a […]
Barzani Family Spends $47 Million on Two Beverly Hills Homes as Iraqi’s Kurdistan Region goes bankrupt
Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills is one of Southern California’s biggest tourist attractions, its glitzy collection of designer boutiques — Chanel, Hermès and more — forming their own sort of Magic Kingdom to lure gawkers, and sometimes serious shoppers, from around the world. The residential streets just north of the main shopping drag have their […]