Iraqi Kurdistan Real Estate Market Makes a Comeback - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Abdel Hamid Zebari

May 8, 2013

An aerial view of the city of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, March 19, 2013. Picture taken March 19, 2013. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: CITYSCAPE) - RTR3F8BQ — An aerial view of the city of Erbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdistan region, about 350 km (217 miles) north of Baghdad, March 19, 2013. — REUTERS/Azad Lashkari

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Employees of the state-run South Oil Company (SOC) join a new oil storage tank to the oil pipelines near the southern city of Basra January 14, 2013. The head of the state-run South Oil Company said the new facility will add a capacity of one million barrels to the existing 5.5 million barrels available. REUTERS/Atef Hassan (IRAQ - Tags: ENERGY CIVIL UNREST)

Iraqi Kurds Press Ahead With Pipeline Plans

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Security personnel and residents gather around a crater caused by a suicide car bomb attack in Debis, west of Kirkuk March 11, 2013. Three civilians were killed and some 70 others were wounded when a suicide car bomb went off on Monday, west of the ethnically mixed northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police and hospital sources said. A large number of school pupils were wounded in the attack, which reduced a number of houses to rubble and damaged about ten cars. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST P

Kirkuk Still Divides Arabs, Kurds in Iraq

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Members of a Syrian refugees family, who fled the violence back home, are seen at the Domiz refugee camp in the northern Iraqi of province Dohuk July 25, 2012. The number of refugees that have fled to Iraq's Kurdistan region is in excess of 11,000 refugees, and they are settled in the region's three provinces: Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniya. As for the Domiz refugee camp, the number of refugee families reached 696 families, equivalent to 2,800 people, but on the other side of the camp, where young refugees ar

Iraqi Kurdistan Struggles to Meet Needs of Displaced Syrian Kurds

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Abdel Hamid Zebari

A memorial for victims of the 1988 chemical attack is pictured at the cemetery for the victims in the Kurdish town of Halabja, near Sulaimaniya, 260 km (160 miles) northeast of Baghdad, March 16, 2013. Iraqi Kurds on Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the chemical attack on the northern Iraqi city of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces. Up to 5,000 people may have been killed by chemical gas, villages were razed and thousands of Kurds were forced into camps during the 1988 Anfal genocidal campaign again

After 10 Years of Iraqi Conflict, Only Kurds Emerge as Winners

Abdel Hamid Zebari

Abdel Hamid Zebari