5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (315+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Kurdistan Region security forces (Asayish) on Saturday said they arrested 22 Islamic State (ISIS) members, including a senior member, and seized “a large quantity” of weapons during a four-day operation in Sulaimani and Halabja provinces. Asayish…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (214+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Erbil and Baghdad held a meeting on Tuesday to discuss strengthening cooperation on counternarcotics efforts in coordination with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), a senior KRG official said. The meeting also…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago   (326+ words) The defendants, mainly from Afghanistan, are believed to be linked to people-smuggling networks. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Fourteen suspected people smugglers are set to go on trial in Paris over the deaths of at least 27 people, most of them…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (319+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq’s integrity commission on Monday announced that arrest warrants were issued for the former municipality director of Nasiriyah city alongside several employees after a forgery network was uncovered in the institution. The commission announced in…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (233+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraq’s Federal Commission of Integrity on Sunday said 191 arrest warrants were issued in August, including 27 for high-ranking officials, as the country’s crackdown on corruption continues. The commission shared an infographic for its activities in August…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (216+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq’s National Intelligence Service (INIS) said Friday it arrested a 10-member criminal network of foreign nationals who were in Baghdad illegally, accusing them of luring foreigners, holding them captive, torturing them and demanding ransoms from…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (447+ words) Twelve of the Lalezar detainees, including Lahur Sheikh Jangi and his brother Polad, appeared before court on Thursday. Six of the defendants recanted their previous testimonies under the pretext that they had been obtained under duress, and recorded new testimonies....

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (265+ words) The area has for years been a hub for ISIS remnants. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – At least one member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) was killed and another injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen in Kirkuk’s Pirde…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (439+ words) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – Iraq has completed the interrogation of over 5,700 Islamic State (ISIS) inmates transferred from Syria during clashes between Kurdish-led forces in Rojava (northeast Syria) and Damascus earlier this year, the Supreme Judicial Council said Tuesday. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (228+ words) The New Region Inside Kurdistan’s little-known police reform drive backed by EU advisors Rondak Faris, head of the KRG’s Ministry of Interior's Leadership and Management Academy, said at the workshop that so far they developed a local training concept and…...