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Irbil

Type: City

Name: Irbil

Country: Iraq

Latitude: 36.189999

Longitude: 44.02

population: 932,854

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 54 mins ago - 1 reports

Irbil Would Benefit from Normalized Relations with Baghdad

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki recently concluded his first trip in years to Irbil, capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, without having made any tangible progress toward resolving the feud between the central Iraqi government and the Iraqi Kurds, ... [Published World Politics Review - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Baghdad, Irbil, Iraq, Trend Lines Inc, Turkey

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland

Catherine Ashton visits Erbil

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy met with the president of the regional administration northern Iraq Massoud Barzani and Nechirvan Barzani in Irbil. ... [Published Avrupa Times - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Nechirvan Idris Barzani, Irbil, Massoud Barzani

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

Chevron Corp

Chevron Expands Kurdish Oil Exploration and 2 Other Dow Movers to Watch

Chevron Corporation ( NYSE : CVX ): Current price $ 121.52Chevron announced that it has reached a deal with the Kurdish regional government in Iraq, through which to expand its oil exploration territory in the northern self-rule region. In a statement ... [Published Wall St. Cheat Sheet - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Chevron Corp, Oil Exploration, 3M Company

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 1 reports

Nechirvan Idris Barzani

EU's high representative visits Erbil

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy met with the president of the regional administration northern Iraq Massoud Barzani and Nechirvan Barzani in Irbil. European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security ... [Published World Bulletin - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Irbil, Nechirvan Idris Barzani, Catherine Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland, Massoud Barzani

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Chevron Secures Iraqi Kurdish Oil Deal

U.S. oil giant Chevron says it has signed a deal with Iraq's Kurdish regional government to expand its oil exploration territory in the northern self-rule region.The California-based company said in a statement emailed Tuesday that it acquired the rights ... [Published ABC News - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Chevron Corp, Irbil, Baghdad, Iraq, Oil Exploration

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Violence escalates in Iraq

UTCSuicide attacks, attacks conducted with bomb laden vehicles and Car bombs targeting military checkpoints were intensified in Northern Iraq.Rocket attacks targeting a police checkpoint killed 24 people, mainly police and soldiers.Many suicide attacks ... [Published Turkish Radio and Television - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Iraq, Escalation, Suicide Attack

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Nouri al-Maliki

Iraq prime minister...

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Prime Minister yesterday made a rare visit to the country’s self-ruled northern Kurdish region in a bid to melt the ice between the Kurds and the Shiite-led central government in Baghdad, as a suicide attack in Baghdad claimed the lives ... [Published Arab News - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Iraq, Baghdad, Nouri al-Maliki, Irbil, Massoud Barzani

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Maliki, Barzani to activate joint reconciliation committee

Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki met with Prime Minister of regional administration in north of Iraq Barzani in Irbil and decided to activate joint reconciliation committee that deals with issues between Iraqi government and regional administration. Iraqi ... [Published World Bulletin - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Nechirvan Idris Barzani, Irbil, Iraq, Baghdad

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

TURKISH PRESS REVIEW on JUNE 10

Turkish dailies on Monday covered Prime Minister Erdogan's call for end to Gezi Park protests, former CIA employee's revealing himself as primary source of highly classified US surveillance systems to British media, agreement between US President Obama ... [Published World Bulletin - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Irbil, Milliyet, Gezi Park, Ankara, US National Security Agency

First reported Jun 10 2013 - Updated Jun 10 2013 - 1 reports

Bombings in Iraq, reconciliation in Irbil

Two car bombs and a suicide attack have killed at least 13 people at a fruit and vegetable market just north of Baghdad. Hundreds have been killed in recent months in Iraq in a series of retaliatory Sunni-Shiite attacks.Three near-simultaneous bombings ... [Published Deutsche Welle - Jun 10 2013]

Entities: Irbil, Iraq, Shia Islam, Nouri al-Maliki, Massoud Barzani

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 09 2013 - 1 reports

Iraqi PM Makes Conciliatory Visit To Kurdish Region

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has held a cabinet meeting in Irbil, the capital of the country's northern Kurdish region.Maliki and the government were in Irbil on June 9 in a bid to reduce tensions between the Kurdish minority and the Shi'ite-led ... [Published Radio Free Europe - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Irbil, Masud Barzani, Baghdad

First reported Jun 09 2013 - Updated Jun 09 2013 - 1 reports

Suicide car bomb kills 7 in Baghdad

A boy walks amidst the wreckage of his home after a car bomb attack in Baghdad June 8, 2013. REUTERS/Thaier al-SudaniBAGHDAD: A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into an Iraqi army checkpoint in a Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on ... [Published Lebanon Daily Star - Jun 09 2013]

Entities: Baghdad, Car Bomb, Suicide, Shia Islam, Irbil

Quotes

"There are going to be some interesting power plays in the future, but how the Kurdistan region negotiates its relationship with central government is going to be determinative,” she explained. “If the KRG leaders decide they don't need that relationship, they are likely to engage in another form of dependency, but certainly will not attain any form of independent state through energy exports or through their relationship with Turkey.”"

Irbil Would Benefit from Normalized Relations with Baghdad [Published World Politics Review - 11 hours ago]

Stating that the people were attempting to set themselves free of violence, Massoud Barzani said, "Our current situation now is a result of our will to live together in peace" adding that they never wanted to clash with the Baghdad government

EU's high representative visits Erbil [Published World Bulletin - 23 hours ago]

Maliki said "we are brothers and Mr. Barzani hopefully will be in Baghdad soon."

Maliki, Barzani to activate joint reconciliation committee [Published World Bulletin - Jun 10 2013]

"The issue of reaching permanent solutions needs an atmosphere of understanding and mutual trust" al-Maliki said

Bombings in Iraq, reconciliation in Irbil [Published Deutsche Welle - Jun 10 2013]

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Syrian Kurds seek essential supplies in Iraq [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 08 2013]