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UN refugee chief: World should help _generous_ Kurdistan

The head of the UN_s refugee agency praised Iraq_s autonomous region of Kurdistan for welcoming hundreds of thousands of displaced people and urged the world to offer it _massive_ support during a visit on Thursday. Duration: 00:58 Jul 18, 2014
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Iraqi Kurds say future of disputed Kirkuk in their hands

A major offensive by Sunni militants, led by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has only served to strengthen the conviction among Kurds that Kirkuk's future lies with the Kurdistan region. Duration: 02:06 Jun 25, 2014
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US John Kerry visist Iraqi Kurdistan, meets leader

US Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced visit to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region Tuesday as he pressed an urgent diplomatic drive to stop the fractious country tearing apart. Duration: 00:41 Jun 25, 2014
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Iraqis fleeing Sunni insurgents take shelter in Kirkuk

Hundred of thousands Iraqis were displaced since the offensive of the Islamic state in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), fleeing toward the border of the Iraqi Kurdistan region and the Iraqi disputed city Kirkuk. Duration: 00:47 Jun 17, 2014
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Suspected ISIL militants seize Iraqi City of Mosul

Iraq, June 10 (ANI): Insurgents, reportedly fighters of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) assumed full control of Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city on Tuesday. According to sources, after seize of Mosul, Terrorist organization ISIL took control over all of Mosul's government facilities, airports, central bank holding billions of Iraqi currencies. The seize came after days of heavy clashes with government forces, wherein at least 30 people were killed in a double bombing which targetted the offices of a Kurdish political party in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato on Monday itself. A car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near the local headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party, before a truck packed with explosives was detonated beside a wall late Monday. Jun 10, 2014
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Tight post-attack security curbs Iraqi Kurdistan tourism

Tight security measures imposed after a rare deadly attack in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have curbed tourism ahead of the year's biggest Muslim holiday, industry officials and business owners say. Duration: 00:52 Oct 16, 2013
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Kurd leader says there is fear of civil war in Iraq

The leader of Iraqi Kurdistan says there is "real fear" that sectarian violence in Iraq could escalate into civil war. The autonomous region's president Massud Barzani was talking to AFP in an exclusive interview. Duration: 00:43 Oct 13, 2013
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Turkey PM unveils reforms

Turkey on Monday moved to scrap restrictions on the use of the minority Kurdish language among democratic reforms seen as key to the stalled peace process with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Duration: 00:28 Sep 30, 2013
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