Syria's education ministry has officially appointed two specialist supervisors for Kurdish-language classes in Aleppo province, a first for the country.
The group will be the fifth convoy of displaced families returning from shelters and camps.
The family of Hassan Kalash, director of a language institute and a philosophy teacher in the city of Girkê Legê, has identified his body after it was found burned on the Dardara road in the Tel Koçer countryside. Kalash had been abducted from Girkê Legê, and the circumstances surrounding his abduction and killing remain unknown.
Meeting residents in Tal Tamr, Abdi said integration is in its final stages and Kurdish is now an official language of instruction. He also announced a committee on missing persons.
The body of Kurdish teacher Hesen Keleş, kidnapped in Girkê Legê on 30 September, has been found on a road in the Til Koçer countryside.
Raqqa's deputy governor says Kurds are genuine, original partners in Syria and that pending cases are being resolved under the law.
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ئەمڕۆ لەلایەن کەسوکارەکەی بە ئاڵای کوردستانەوە گەڕێندرایەوە گوندی گڕکێ لەکێ لە پارێزگای حەسەکە و بەخاک سپێردرا.
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Coalition withdrawal/Kurds: Iran's consul general in Erbil, Faramarz Asadi repeatedly declined to say whether Tehran would halt its attacks on alleged targets in the Region following the US withdrawal, claiming that “security forces and formations of the CIA are still here [in the Kurdistan Region] and continue sowing discord.”
“If they at any moment want to make a move against the Islamic Republic of Iran, they will be targeted as part of American interests and targets,” he warned.
In the coming weeks, new convoys of displaced persons will also leave the Sere Kaniye camps and head towards their homes.
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The Kurdistan Regional Government’s relationship with the federal structure of Iraq was, and continues to be, premised on securing the autonomy of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq – whether as part of federal Iraq, or as an independent entity, if and when circumstances allow. A key requirement for securing this autonomy is financial independence, enabled by independent revenue streams, with the budget being the vehicle through which this independence is exercised. This paper’s focus is the region’s budget, and the structural contradictions of the budget’s revenues that make financial independence structurally unachievable. Its main argument is that the region’s budget needs both of its independent revenue streams (oil and non-oil revenues), and its share of the federal budget to meet its expenditures; however, this share can only be received if it transfers a large share of its oil production and of its non-oil revenues to the federal government – in the process substantially reducing overall revenues, a case of ‘Catch-22’. Breaking the catch requires a reset of the relationships governing Iraq’s federal structure, grounded in a shared conception of that structure and expressed through the enactment of a federal oil and gas law; together with the institutions needed for its operation, regardless of the political makeup of the federal and regional governments. This would preserve the integrity of the country’s federal structure, including the KRI’s autonomy, which paradoxically is enhanced by a deeper integration in the federation rather than by the pursuit of independent revenue streams.