Archiv: Nechirvan Barzani


24.04.2026 - 17:17 [ NDTVProfit.com ]

Fresh Hope For US-Iran Peace Talks? Iran‘s Abbas Araghchi Speaks To Asim Munir, Ishaq Dar

Iran‘s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi has held phone conversations with Pakistan‘s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar as well as army chief Asim Munir, amid heightened diplomatic activity around a possible ceasefire and renewed US-Iran engagement, according to Al Jazeera report.

Iran‘s semi-official Tasnim News Agency reported that the discussions focused on regional developments and issues related to the ceasefire.

In a separate call, Araghchi also spoke with Nechirvan Barzani, president of Iraq‘s semi-autonomous Kurdish region.

05.03.2026 - 17:18 [ CNN ]

Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government denies reports it is part of a plan to send opposition forces into Iran

“The Kurdistan Regional Government and the political parties within it are not part of any campaign to expand the war and tensions in the region,” a government spokesperson, Peshawa Hawramani, said in a statement. He added that reports of Iraqi KRG involvement in a plan to arm Kurdish forces are being spread “deliberately and maliciously.”

“On the contrary, we call for peace and stability in the region,” Hawramani added. “We strongly condemn the cowardly attacks targeting the Kurdistan Region, and we call on the federal government and the international community to intervene to stop these assaults and protect our land, our people, and our region.”

04.02.2025 - 17:34 [ Rudaw.net ]

President Barzani, anti-ISIS coalition commander discuss ISIS ‘dangers’

When ISIS seized swathes of Iraqi land in 2014, Peshmerga played a key role in driving the extremist group out of the areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad, especially Kirkuk. The US-led global coalition provided Peshmerga and Iraqi forces with military assistance to defeat ISIS territorially, which was completed in 2017.

Barzani and Leahy also discussed the latest developments in Syria and their impact on neighboring countries.

26.02.2024 - 23:06 [ Shafaq.com ]

Kurdistan‘s PM: we are very proud to say that we are American allies

On Monday, the Kurdish Government revealed that Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani met with the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken at the headquarters of the US State Department in Washington.

Before the meeting, the two officials expressed in remarks reported by the Secretary of State the close ties between the two sides.

24.11.2019 - 10:34 [ Wall Street Journal ]

Pence Visits U.S. Troops in Iraq, Meets With Kurdish Leader

ERBIL, Iraq—Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Iraq on Saturday for an unannounced visit with U.S. troops days before the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, and he met with the leader of Kurdistan but didn’t visit Baghdad.

14.10.2014 - 11:23 [ Basnews ]

Barzani and Erdoğan agree on Kurdish oil exports

(26. Februar 2014) A source from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan has told BasNews that Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani has made a secret agreement with his Turkish counterpart on Kurdish oil exports.

According to the PUK source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Kurdish PM Barzani secretly reached an agreement on Kurdish oil exports that will be implemented if Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki remains opposed to Kurdish oil exports to Turkey.