May 6, 2025
2025-05-06T17:54:01+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, Kurdistan Region President Nechirvan Barzani congratulated Friedrich Merz on his election as the new German Chancellor. In a post on X, Barzani stated that the Kurdistan Region “values its close ...
2025-05-06T16:40:18+00:00 Shafaq News/ The Kurdistan Regional Government is fast-tracking a $479 million water infrastructure project in Erbil to ease mounting pressure on the city’s overstretched supply system, according to a statement. The project, now over ...
2025-05-06T15:46:11+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, the Leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Masoud Barzani, discussed Middle East tensions, Kurdish unity, and Syria’s political future with Ali Qaradaghi, head of the International Union of Muslim ...
2025-05-06T15:04:27+00:00 Shafaq News/ In the Chemi Rezan Valley west of Al-Sulaymaniyah, the Qyzqapan Tomb rises from a limestone cliff—an ancient chamber carved high into the rock, bearing witness to a time when stone held memory ...
2025-05-06T13:53:24+00:00 Shafaq News/ On Tuesday, the Iraqi-Turkish Economic Forum opened in al-Sulaymaniyah province, Kurdistan Region, with broad participation from Iraqi and Turkish companies, marking a push to strengthen trade ties despite Turkiye’s airspace ban on ...
As the conflict in Gaza and escalating attacks on Yemen intensify, seafarers working in commercial shipping off the coast of Yemen find themselves stranded in increasingly perilous conditions, with little attention from the international community ...
Global perspective Human stories UN Secretary-General António Guterres. (file photo) UN Secretary-General urges military restraint from India, Pakistan 6 May 2025 Peace and Security The UN chief has expressed deep concern over Indian military operations ...
Security Council urged to stand firm as Bosnia and Herzegovina faces deepening crisis High Representative Christian Schmidt briefed on latest developments surrounding implementation of the 1995 General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ...
Gaza: UN aid teams reject Israel’s ‘deliberate attempt to weaponize aid’ “It appears to be a deliberate attempt to weaponize the aid and we have warned against that for a very long time. Aid should ...
Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates Nearly 20,000 people – mainly traumatized women and children – have reached Chad in the past two weeks, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. “Most arrived ...
