Like Addax, Oryx will be focused on exploring for oil in west Africa and Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Mr Hashemi is currently in Irbil in Iraqi Kurdistan, under the protection of the regional government.
Sherko Abbas, a Kurdish-Syrian exile living in the US heads the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria.
They live mainly in the northern part of the country, known as Iraqi Kurdistan.
Exxon Mobil has since backed out of its contract with Baghdad and also ventured into Kurdistan.
Ground troops reportedly went about a mile and half inside of Iraqi Kurdistan then withdrew.
Kaveh said it was the best meal he'd had in his 59 days in Kurdistan.
The governor of Kurdistan, Abdollah Ramazanzadeh, is calling for the election to be cancelled.
The decision to send Kurdish units of the Iraqi army to Baghdad was controversial in Kurdistan.
Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining company, recently said it was withdrawing from a gold-mining project in Kurdistan.
Other coalition forces captured airfields in western Iraq and were airlifted into Iraqi Kurdistan, north of Baghdad.
It hangs in every government and party office in the enclave: the Kurds' official map of Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Unlike Kurdistan, which is fairly peaceful, Kirkuk has become a hot spot for attacks by various Iraqi factions.
Turkey could perhaps then formalise ties with Iraqi Kurdistan, among other things by opening a consulate in Erbil.
As many as five million Iraqis were driven from their homes, many to Kurdistan and perhaps two million overseas.
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Mr Maliki and Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdistan region, get on badly and have not met for months.
When in 2003 the AKP-dominated Turkish parliament prohibited US forces from invading Iraq through Kurdistan, the US blamed itself.
This week, the Turkish government cancelled direct flights between Istanbul and Iraqi Kurdistan.
French authorities said the bodies of the three women were discovered in the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris.
Goldberg interviewed several prisoners held by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two rival Kurdish factions in the north.
With help from U.S. authorities, they fled the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq to escape the oppression of Saddam Hussein.
Meanwhile, Iraq's autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has signed dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies, outside central government control.
Everywhere from Colombia to Kurdistan to the Caucasus, armies have dealt with separatist insurgencies by uprooting the communities that succour them.
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Formal ties with Iraqi Kurdistan are certain to boost already flourishing cross-border trade, creating jobs for Turkish and Iraqi Kurds alike.
But now the oil majors are turning their attention to Kurdistan and its potential to produce two million barrels a day.
Iraj Hassanzadeh, the deputy governor of Iran's Kurdistan province, told Fars the three were arrested in the western Iranian city of Marivan.
And as Iraqi Kurdistan moves ever farther away from the rest of Iraq, maintaining a federal system may become ever more difficult.
After the 1991 Gulf War, the United States put in place a "no-fly" zone in Northern Iraq, covering much of Iraqi Kurdistan.
You'll hear her full reports on Kurdistan on NPR News this week.
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