News 2020-12-16 Former mayor of Khanaqin sentenced to two years in prison Discrimination in electricity service for Shingal: local officials Residents in Shingal get only one hour of electricity per day, and on some days no Oil well in Kirkuk still burns One of two oil wells in Kirkuk that were blown up by IEDs last week is Interior minister offers Ezidkhan Asaiysh becoming part of federal forces The Iraqi Minister of the Interior, Othman al-Ghanimi, has suggested that the Ezidkhan Asaiysh to become Members of defunct Kaka’i militia seek its re-establishment Members of a dissolved Kaka’i militia which was part of the PMF (Popular Mobilization Forces; the Gathering in Kirkuk in support of protests across Kurdistan Region A number of activists, teachers, clerics and lawyers gathered in Kirkuk on 12 December to express Picture of Ezidi doctor put on stamp in Armenia The name and a picture of Mirza Hasan Ali, a doctor and charity worker, have been Kurdish villagers “threatened to leave” their homes in Kirkuk Members of the ‘Imamayin’ militia deny to have threatened any family in Palkana village. But a Judge orders arrest of PUK office guard in Kifri Security forces arrest one of the guards of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headquarters in Former chancellor of Kirkuk University in the clear after appeal Baghdad Court of Appeals has ordered the release of Abbas Taqi, former chancellor of Kirkuk University, Shingal Resistance Units becomes part of PMF (Hashd) The Shingal Resistance Units (YBŞ) has made an agreement with the Iraqi Army to merge most Kurdistan Regional Government orders closure of NRT for one week A security force has closed the headquarters of the NRT TV channel in Slémani City around Kirkuk Police launches drug awareness campaign Dealing in drugs and its use in a number of Kirkuk City’s neighbourhoods is widespread, and 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 55 56
