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A road trip through Iraqi Kurdistan: checkpoints and deep political divides

When I woke up, it was still dark outside. Outside my window, the lights of Erbil’s central “golden zone” still twinkled. I grabbed my bag, packed with a change of clothes and the tools of my trade, and went downstairs to meet the friend and fellow journalist I would be traveling with today. Our destination was Halabja, a small city near the Iranian border. Halabja is known for its excellent pomegranates, but it is best known as the site of a de…
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WPLN — Nashville Public Radio broke the news in on Thursday, August 7, 2025.
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