The Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government’s envoy to Iran shrugged off disagreements between KRG leader Masoud Barzani and the new president of the Arab country, Barham Salih, saying that the two would cooperate with each other. “Such disagreements are kind of ordinary in politics,” Nazem Dabbagh told Tasnim in an interview, ...
Iraqi parliament has elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the country’s new president, a step toward forming a new government, Iraqi state TV said. Barham Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, won 220 votes out of the 273 lawmakers who attended Tuesday’s session. He was among 20 candidates for ...