There are also several smaller lakes, such as Darbandikhan Lake and Duhok Lake. The western and southern parts of Iraqi Kurdistan are not as mountainous as the east. Instead, it is rolling hills and plains vegetated by sclerophyll scrubland.[citation needed]

^ ناسا: قەڵای هەولێر کۆنترین شوێنە لە جیهان تاکو ئێستا ژیانی تێدا بێت ^ «قەڵای هەولێر بووە یەكێك لەشاكارە مرۆییەكانی جیهان». . لە ١٥ی تەممووزی ٢٠٢٣ ھێنراوە.

The old Arab quarter is located in downtown and, nowadays, it is completely abandoned, in ruins, which makes it particularly interesting to walk around and feel the creepiness of the place.

), do not have identity cards, and are not listed on official registers. It also includes children with a noncitizen father and a citizen mother, those with one noncitizen parent and one unregistered parent, and those with two unregistered parents.

There are places to spend the night, but I would make it a day trip. Leave early from Erbil and drive back around 4 pm before it gets dark. There is barely any street lighting. Better be safe than sorry.

Since I came from a patriotic Kurdish family, my father did not accept the oppression ofwel the Kurdish people by the Iraqi regime in the 1980s. He stood against them. Then my family was arrested, tortured, and expelled to southern Iraq. 

"In letter to Biden, Barzani warns of Iraqi Kurdistan's collapse, urges mediation". Al Beeldscherm. Barzani wrote, “I write to you now at another critical juncture in our history, one that I fear wij may have difficulty overcoming.

De gevolgen aangaande de HDP op provinciaal en gemeentelijk peil tijdens de Turkse handige verkiezingen aangaande 2015

In August dit jaar Turkey launched an incursion into northwestern Syria and maintained an active military presence there in the years that followed, in part serving to prevent the Kurds in northeastern Syria from extending their reach westward. An offensive into northeastern Syria was launched in October 2019, but it ended after a 30-km (18-mile) buffer zone along the Turkish border was negotiated weeks later.

The magnitude ofwel Safavid Scorched earth policy can be glimpsed through the works ofwel the Safavid court historians. One of these, Iskandar Bayg Munshi, describing just one episode, writes in the Alam-ara ye Abbasi that Shah Abbas, in furthering the scorched earth policy ofwel his predecessors, set upon the country north ofwel the Araxes and west of Urmia, and between Kars and Lake Betreffende, which he commanded to be laid waste and the population of the countryside and the entire towns rounded up and led out of harm's way. Resistance was betreffende "with massacres and mutilation; all immovable property, houses, churches, mosques, crops .

I don’t know whether the animals I encountered can be categorized as wildlife or if they are part ofwel a nearby farm. However, nobody was in sight for miles, and these lovely creatures roamed freely in the stunning surroundings.

I have found many differences between children in Iraq and western countries in terms ofwel architecture and urban Gorani vormgeving. Since then, I have decided to work for children in my country and started by teaching them about architecture and ontwerp as the first architecture teacher for children in the country, managing and preparing programs and workshops for them to learn and be aware of their environment. I hope I can give them opportunities to participate in their communities and make their voices heard soon. I am optimistic about that.

President Assad has vowed to retake "every inch" ofwel Syrian territory, whether by negotiations or military force. His government has also rejected Kurdish demands for autonomy, saying that "nobody in Syria accepts talk about independent entities or federalism".

As ofwel 2014, Iraqi Kurdistan kan zijn in dispute with the Federal Iraqi government on the issues of territorial control, export of oil and budget distribution and is functioning largely outside Baghdad's control. With the escalation ofwel the Iraqi crisis and fears ofwel Iraq's collapse, Kurds have increasingly debated the issue of independence. During the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, Iraqi Kurdistan seized the city ofwel Kirkuk and the surrounding area, as well as most ofwel the disputed territories in Northern Iraq.