Erbil fully geared up to ring in 2025!

#Breaking | Reports of Iraqi security forces blocking the return of people to their original villages in Pirde (North of Kirkuk) for the general census the next two days.

#Kurdistan #Iraq #IraqCensus

Kurdistan mountains.

📸 Rayan Shelazi

President Biden has authorized the use of powerful American long-range weapons for Ukraine to fire inside Russia, according to a senior US official familiar with the decision, as the US watches with concern as North Korean troops deploy in support of Russia.

My article on the recent Kurdistan elections available in Arabic now on ⁦Kurdistan Bil Arabi:

Link: kurdistanbilarabi.com/babat/3227

#Update | Remnants of the vehicle which was hit by an IED earlier today, killing three Peshmerga and Iraqi officers.

My latest for Kurdistan Chronicle Magazine covering the UNDP’s trial monitoring report on corruption cases in the Kurdistan Region.

Read full article here: kurdistanchronicle.com/babat/3384

Kurdish village guards of Beytüşşebap. On the wall carpets with Elvis and Jesus. Hakkari Province, Turkey, 1991.

📷: Dietrich Hackenberg | lichtbild

#Kurdistan #Peshmerga

Hunting Kurdish nobleman, southeastern Anatolia, 1862. With his dogs and falcon.

Gravure from Emile Duhousset (French explorer, artist and geographer).