Government of Iraqi Kurdistan

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has begun selling crude oil from the region and Kirkuk independently and will receive payments without going through Baghdad, a Kurdish MP said in the Iraqi Parliament on July 8, according to media organization Rudaw. 

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) announced it is meeting investors in London this week, with an eye to a "potential transaction in the near future."

Northern Iraq has become a popular new destination for criminal suspects fleeing Turkey, apparently taking over the mantle from their previous favorite, Turkish Cyprus.

Some 136 suspects charged with murder, rape, theft, smuggling, or drug trafficking, have recently escaped to northern Iraq, particularly the provinces of Zaho, Dohuk and Arbil.

Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani warned that despite  victories in the war against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the global coalition against the group was inadequate and predicted a campaign to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul would not happen before the fall.