Sulaimani’s street cleaners keep working as pay raise stalls
Earlier this year, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) set a minimum monthly wage of 450,000 Iraqi dinars, or about $305, for cleaning workers based on an eight-hour workday.
US President Donald Trump's business partner Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner visited Moscow in hopes of reviving negotiations to end Europe's worst conflict since WWII.
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“The Iraqi file at al-Hol camp will be completely closed soon,” Nouri added.
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The two sides highlighted “the importance of supporting the government's efforts in combating corrup...
The circumstances under which the Jangi brothers and their aides were arrested, which saw security forces in Sulaimani mount a dramatic, psuedo-military operation, have already raised questions from rights groups.
Earlier this year, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) set a minimum monthly wage of 450,000 Iraqi dinars, or about $305, for cleaning workers based on an eight-hour workday.
“The US Government's financial support to the Kurdistan Regional Government for the unification of the Peshmerga forces was always intended to be temporary. It was intended to help the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs integrate and unify the different units, and if the US Government is now ending the payment of stipends to those forces, that is almost certainly because it judges the unification effort to be complete,” Ambassador Joey Hood, the former US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, told The New Region.
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 strengthened the skills of local trainers, leading to the successful training of more than 10,000 police officers.
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“An Iranian tanker was targeted by a US military missile attack six miles from Kharg Island this mor...
In a statement addressing the people of the Kurdistan Region, the IRGC said “the time has come for t...
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Mohammed A. Salih
Mohammed A. Salih
Mohammed A. Salih
Ali al-Mamouri