Author: Zozik Dilok

Iraq reported generating over $9 billion from oil sales for the month of October, continuing the country’s streak of increasing oil revenues for the fourth consecutive month. In its preliminary monthly report, the Iraqi oil ministry announced that more than 109 million barrels of crude oil were exported during the previous month, at an average rate of 3.5 million barrels per day and an average price of $88.2 per barrel. A total of $9.66 billion was generated from oil sales according to October’s early numbers, down from September’s $9.49 billion. Last month’s oil revenue is Iraq’s highest since August 2022…

A Turkish drone on Tuesday killed an off-duty Peshmerga fighter in Duhok province and injured a shepherd. The bombardment took place near a populated area.   Ali Jamil, 44, walked to an area only 250 meters away from his house in Duhok province’s Bamarne subdistrict early Tuesday, but a Turkish drone targeted him at around 7:00 am, injuring him and a nearby shepherd. Ali succumbed to his injuries and the 23-year-old Matin Sadiq, a shepherd, is receiving treatment at the Duhok Emergency Hospital, their families and a local security source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Rudaw. “We had…

The Kurdistan Region’s agriculture ministry has distributed 45 solar power stations to farmers in the Region, with the financial gain and low cost of the systems having led dozens of farmers to install them at their own expense.  The cost-effective solar power projects are fixing the issues of lack of electricity in the Gwer and Makhmour districts in Erbil province. Sardar Sdiq, a farmer, owns 85 dunams of land. He irrigates his land with the help of solar energy panels and plants various agricultural products. “I got financial gains from my solar power panels,” Sdiq told Rudaw’s Bakhtiyar Qadir on…

Valencia, Turin, Madrid (28/11 – 25) Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia retained his MotoGP world title with many records; there are nevertheless signs that the Ducati rider will face sterner competition next season. The Italian rider won the 2023 season-ending MotoGP Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday to clinch his second world title in a row. The protege of Valentino Rossi becomes the third rider to take back-to-back MotoGP titles since the introduction of the class in 2002. Only Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez previously managed to do that. Bagnaia is the first rider to successfully race and defend #1 in the…

At least nine suspected members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were killed and several others injured during Turkish strikes on their positions last night in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil and Duhok provinces, Erbil-based Kurdish counterterrorism forces said on Thursday.  “Nine PKK fighters were killed in a series of strikes carried out by Turkish warplanes and drones on several positions in Sidakan district of Erbil province last night,” the Erbil-based Directorate General of Counter Terrorism (CTD), also known as Kurdistan CT, said in a statement on Facebook. It added that an additional PKK fighter was killed and three others wounded…

Turkish defence ministry on Saturday announced that it had targeted over 30 alleged Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s (PKK) positions inside the Kurdistan Region in recent days, causing many casualties. The ministry said in a statement that “a total of 31 targets, including caves, bunkers, shelters and warehouses,” of the PKK on Mount Gara were “destroyed” when its air forces hit the Kurdish armed group on Wednesday and Friday. “Many terrorists were neutralised,” claimed the ministry.Turkey uses the term neutralised to denote adversaries captured, wounded, or killed.Mount Gara is located in Duhok province where Turkey’s code-named Operation Claw-Lock continues. The offensive was launched in…

A part of Zakho’s old bazaar has been dedicated to women selling traditional Kurdish items and handicrafts. The bazaar is a landmark of the border city, and has been reopened again after a year-long renovation.  The women are proud to create and sell traditional items they say are becoming a rarity to find. Amal Botany is one of the female shopkeepers who spends most of the day at her stall, preparing fresh bread. “Sometimes we come in the morning. We work from 2 pm to 11 pm. We are here to serve our guests which include the people of Zakho…

Fighting is raging near Bakhmut and Zaporizhia, but Russia’s airstrikes are also aimed at Kiev and Lviv. Ukraine’s air defenses are apparently continuing to intercept many Russian drones. Russia continues to attack Ukraine, mainly from the air – in addition to shelling the front in the east of the country, Lviv in the west on the border with Poland was also attacked. There were also drone and rocket attacks on Kiev and Zaporizhia, with Ukrainian forces saying their air defenses shot down almost all – 32 out of 38 – Russian drones. Musician and TV sound engineer Ivan Shulga, who died…

AKIPRESS.COM – South Korea donated over $20 million to Uzbekistan for projects to green cities, develop a phytosanitary service, and open parliament, UzA reported. The government of Uzbekistan and the KOICA signed agreements on three new projects worth $20.4 million, which will be implemented from 2023 to 2028. A project to build capacity for greening forests and cities based on smart technologies in Tashkent will be implemented between KOICA and the Forestry Agency of Uzbekistan in 2023-2028. The second project will aim to improve the electronic parliament system and create a real-time broadcasting system for the Legislative Chamber of the Parliament.…

A Turkish citizen is charged in Sweden for gun crimes and raising money for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Swedish prosecutors have charged a Turkish citizen for gun crimes and raising money for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which took up arms against the Turkish state in 1984. Friday’s case has come at a sensitive time in Sweden’s relations with Turkey, which is holding up its application for NATO membership, in part because it has said Sweden harbours supporters of armed groups it considers to be “terrorists”. Sweden’s prosecution authority said it was the first time anyone had been charged…