"Today at 6:30pm, a plane from Belarus will arrive in Erbil, capital city of the Kurdistan Region, carrying nearly 430 Iraqi and Kurdish
The KRG also said that there are currently over 20,000
The flight was organized by both Erbil and Baghdad. After landing at Erbil International Airport, the plane took Iraqi
Adil told news hounds on Thursday that nearly 95 percent of today's returnees are from the Kurdistan Region.
Ahmed al-Sahaf, spokesperson for the Iraqi foreign ministry, told state media on Thursday that their consular teams in Belarus are continuing to register
KRG representation in Poland said in a tweet that the plane has left Minsk.
The migrant crisis has been a hot topic of international media over recent weeks as border tensions have deteriorated between Belarus and Europe. Minsk has been accused of exploiting these people, mostly made up of Kurds attempting to reach Europe, and using them as a trump card against the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
. Poland has refused to take in any refugees, instead calling on them to return home.
Belarus said on Thursday that there are currently around 7,000
Many Kurdish
KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani on Tuesday said that the
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...in search of a different opportunity; it’s not the flee of desperation."