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Barzani died in 1979 and the leadership of the re- founded KDP was passed to his son, Massoud Barzani. But a new force had already emerged in Kurdish politics when Jalal Talabani left the KDP to ...

Winners of the BBC Young Reporter Competition 2024 will be announced ... the lack of ethnic diversity in primary school teaching - he wrote his report and spoke about it on Radio 5 Live.

He scored in his first five appearances in the Champions League (a record eight goals in all), becoming only the third man to achieve the feat after Alessandro Del Piero and Diego Costa.

he studied law at the University of Baghdad and had a spell in the army before joining the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Kdp) of mullah Mustafa Barzani, father of the current Kurdish leader and ...

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...