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Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy is an independent journalist currently based in Iraqi Kurdistan. Twitter: @FazelHawramy

Kurdistan quickly descending into chaos

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Iraqi SWAT troopers stand guard on a street during Kurds independence referendum in Kirkuk, Iraq September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani - RC1949AF51F0

Kirkuk residents face uncertainty amid referendum crisis

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

A member of the Iraqi Kurdish security forces stands guard next to the car of Mohammed Younis, a senior official of Iraq's state-run North Gas Company (NGC) who was killed by gunmen, in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, Iraq, May 2, 2017. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1FC8168D00

Kirkuk teetering on brink of war

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Sectarianism in Iraq peaks ahead of Kurdistan referendum

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Developing PKK kidnapping story concerns KRG officials

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Kurdish rivalry undermines peshmerga forces in Kirkuk

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Protesters, who are mostly school teachers, demonstrate on a street in Sulaymaniyah province, Iraq, against the Kurdish regional government for what the protesters said was a delay in payment of their salaries, due to the economic crisis in the Iraqi Kurdish region September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed - RTSPOCJ

Not all Kurds on board with Kurdish independence vote

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

LGBT community struggles for recognition, rights in Iraqi Kurdistan

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

People gather near the parliament's building during a gunmen attack in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. TIMA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. - RTX39DR9

Iran wakes up to Salafi recruitment in Kurdish regions

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Members of the Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS), a militia affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), sit with an Arab tribal fighter (L) in a house in the village of Umm al-Dhiban, northern Iraq, April 30, 2016. They share little more than an enemy and struggle to communicate on the battlefield, but together two relatively obscure groups have opened up a new front against Islamic State militants in a remote corner of Iraq. The unlikely alliance between the Sinjar Resistance Units, an offshoot of a le

Despite deadly border clash, Iran-PKK war unlikely

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

An Iraqi man sits in front to a closed liquor store in Ainkawa, a majority Christian area in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on October 13, 2015.
/ AFP / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Residents of Iraqi Kurdistan stock up on spirits as Ramadan kicks off

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Machine guns are on display at an arms market in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on August 17, 2014. Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US air strikes retook the country's largest dam from jihadist militants who seized it the previous week, officials said. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)

Iraqi Kurdistan rife with unlicensed guns, gun violence

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)

Fazel Hawramy (Iraq Pulse)