Guten Abend #Kurdistan #Erbil

Today’s roundtable in #Erbil with @peaceparadigms created space for exchange between Iraqi and international experts on current efforts, needs and opportunities in addressing #climate security challenges in #Iraq.

"The rising cost of expenses such as increasingly frequent repairs to his taxi eat into the money he makes. Still, he feels he has no choice but to keep driving. “Sometimes I feel so trapped, but I try not to think about it,” Mumen says.
“I drive as much as I can. This is the only thing I can do.”

Another good article in the "What's your money worth?" Al Jazeera series, from the front line of the cost-of-living crisis.
#Iraq #Erbil #CostOfLivingCrisis

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2023/6/1/so-trapped-a-young-iraqi-drivers-costly-taxi-to-nowhere

8/x Der Angeschuldigte befand sich seit seiner Festnahme durch kurdische Sicherheitskräfte im August 2017 bis zu seiner Rückkehr nach Deutschland in #Erbil/#Nordirak in Haft.

🧵#GBA: Anklage gegen ein mutmaßliches Mitglied der ausländischen terroristischen Vereinigung "Islamischer Staat (#IS)" u.a. wegen #Kriegsverbrechen erhoben. #Mossul #Erbil #Frankfurt am Main #Karlsruhe #Daesh 1/x

RT @TimInHonolulu@twitter.com

Can someone please report on the status of #Rosneft in #Kirkuk ? If @Chevron@twitter.com is working with them, isn't that #OFAC sanctions violation @USTreasury@twitter.com? NB Reports #Manafort was in #Erbil weeks before the deal went down. @FBIWFO@twitter.com https://twitter.com/K24English/status/953308945917104128

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/953351430303244289

Civil defense teams have been dispatched to extinguish a refinery fire in the northern Iraqi city of #Erbil #Iraq.

Efforts are still ongoing to put out the fire.

Iraqi media reported an explosion in a training center and weapons depot used by American forces to train Peshmerga forces in #Erbil.
This could of been an attack by Turkey or Iran!
But I am leaning towards Turkey because no western news media is talking about this!

Iraqi media reported an explosion in a training center and weapons depot used by American forces to train Peshmerga forces in #Erbil.
This could of been an attack by Turkey or Iran!
But I am leaning towards Turkey because no western news media is talking about this!

Unfortunately, we can only repeat ourselves. Ongoing Iranian attacks are intolerable. Iraq must act as one in order not to give room to further hostilities. Strength abroad begins with unity at home. #Erbil #Baghdad
RT @UNIraq: Repeated attacks, violating Iraqi sovereignty, must cease. Such aggression not only recklessly heightens tensions but also causes tragedy. Whatever external score a neighbouring country is seeking to settl…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/JeanineHennis/status/1595042073035546624

⚡️This night, #Iran launched a #missile #attack on #Iraq

It is reported that the #Kurdish headquarters in #Erbil and #Sulaymaniyah provinces were shelled. A refugee camp in the city of #Bahirka was also attacked, there are victims.

RT @sotiridi
#Breaking: Just in - Reports that #Iran has declared war with the autonomous region of #Iraq, after multiple Iranian ballistic missiles hit #Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Originally posted by Anonymous Operations / @AnonOpsSE@twitter.com: https://twitter.com/AnonOpsSE/status/1594459042235449344#m

Meanwhile Chaos at the American base / consulate in #Erbil, with sirens ringing continuously.

The Kurdish people need more friends in Europe 🤝 and support in their fight for autonomy, democracy, women‘s rights, respect for minorities and against Islamism. Together with @F_Alfonsi we have been to #Rojava and #Erbil as the Chairs of the Kurdish Friendshipgroup in the #ep

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/SCHIEDER/status/1588516142901071877

RT @UNIraq: The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General, @JeanineHennis , met today in #Erbil with the Prime Minister of the @Kurdistan Region, @masrourbarzani. They discussed the current political and security situation.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/JeanineHennis/status/1587139922116608000

Meine Reise von #Beirut führte mich auch nach #Erbil. Freute mich sehr, mit dem dt GeneralKonsul Dr Sven Mossler über die Lage in #Erbil aber vor allem zu #Syrien sprechen zu können 🙏

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/k_langensiepen/status/1586751255703085063

RT @UNIraq: Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for #Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, meets women activists in #Erbil, praises their role, reiterates support for Iraqi sovereignty
Press note⬇️
EN: https://iraq.un.org/en/205237-un-srsg-meets-women-activists-erbil-praises-their-role-reiterates-support-iraqi-sovereignty
AR: https://iraq.un.org/ar/node/205237
KU: https://iraq.un.org/ku/205237-nwynaery-taybaety-skrtyry-…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/JeanineHennis/status/1586826503639240705

RT @WHOIraq: The new @WHO warehouse, inaugurated today in #Erbil, was renovated & equipped based on int'l standards with a digitalized inventory system.

This achievement was made possible with the partnership of @EU_ECHO, @StatePRM, @USAIDSavesLives, Germany & Kuwait.
https://www.emro.who.int/iraq/news/building-health-system-resilience-in-iraq-investing-in-the-management-of-pharmaceuticals-and-biomedical-technologies.html?forma…

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/ECHO_MiddleEast/status/1577185290275663872

Anlässlich des offiziellen Besuchs der #Zitadelle von #Erbil den ehemaligen Oberbürgermeister Erbils, #NihadQoja @NehadQoja, getroffen. Qoja lebte 23 Jahre in 🇩🇪 und war dort u.a. als Dolmetscher tätig. Er ist jetzt für die Restaurierung der Zitadelle verantwortlich.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/L_P_Berg/status/1530496395693678592

Anlässlich des offiziellen Besuchs der #Zitadelle von #Erbil den ehemaligen Oberbürgermeister Erbils, #NihadQoja @NehadQoja, getroffen. Qoja lebte 23 Jahre in 🇩🇪 und war dort u.a. als Dolmetscher tätig. Er ist jetzt für die Restaurierung der Zitadelle verantwortlich.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/L_P_Berg/status/1530496395693678592