Tag Archives: Sulaymaniyah

A water lake in the Kurdistan region of Iraq astonishes people because the watercolor changes to several colors, such as violet, white and pink, as temperature changes. Rare species of turtles threatened with extinction live in the lake that contains large quantities of sulfur and rare algae. This environment prompted …

Iraq called on Turkey on Saturday to apologize for what it said was an attack on Sulaymaniyah airport in Iraq’s north, saying the Turkish government must cease hostilities on Iraqi soil. The Iraqi presidency said in a statement that Turkey has no legal justification to “continue its approach of intimidating …

Media sources reported early Thursday that an explosion in Sulaymaniyah city in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq left at least 12 wounded. “An explosion was heard in northern Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, and ambulances rushed to the scene,” Iraqi sources reported early Thursday. The source also added that Iraqi Kurdistan media say …

Kurdish security forces dispersed a student demonstration, in which thousands participated, to demand the repayment of student stipends, by shooting in the air and using tear gas canisters, while those demonstrations caused severe traffic jams and paralyzed traffic in the city of Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday evening. The demonstrators are demanding …

Dozens of protesting university students in Sulaymaniyah suffered suffocation, after Kurdish security forces dispersed their protests by force, while trying to open the roads they closed earlier Tuesday. Al-Ghadeer’s correspondent in Kurdistan said that “a number of protesters suffocated due to the use of tear gas by the security forces,” …

Voting process at the Iranian embassy and six consulates across Iraq, in Karbala, Najaf, Basra, Sulaymaniyah, and Erbil, witnessed a massive turnout of voters to elect a President of the Republic. Al-Ghadeer sources at the Iranian embassy in Baghdad reported that the turnout was high in the elections, adding that …