It is possible that new US President Joe Biden will interact with Turkey and the Syrian Kurds and he would likely will ask Turkey to negotiate with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) as well as the Syrian Kurdish-Arab forces known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)," Anthony Avice Du Buisson told KurdPress in an interview.

The head of the office of the Syrian Democratic Council in the United States, requested the continued presence of the United States in Syria and announced the possibility of mediation by the newly-elected President Joe Biden government to resolve the Syrian Kurdish dispute with Ankara.

Spokesperson for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Jotiar Adil said on Wednesday, December 23, that the KRG cannot pay salaries to the Kurdistan Region’s public sector employees for the last two months in 2020 if the federal government does not send the Region’s funds.

Kurdistan's Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani, called on Wednesday, the United Nations to participate as a third party in the Erbil - Baghdad discussions.

The representative of the Kurdistan Islamic Party in the Iraqi parliament stressed that no agreement has been reached between Erbil and Baghdad yet, and that the Kurdish parliament will not approve the budget bill as submitted by the government.

Germany does not prefer to implement an arms embargo on NATO member Turkey, German newspaper Stimme quoted German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas as saying on Tuesday.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed an order by a top European court for the immediate release of the most prominent Kurdish politician, Selahattin Demirtas, jailed in Turkey.

Turkish artillery once again attacked residential areas in Amedi, Dohuk province of the Kurdistan Region.

The commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps met with senior Iraqi officials during a short visit to Baghdad, Al-Alam reported.

Following repeated violations against journalists by the government and the ruling parties of the Kurdistan Region, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday, December 22, indicated concern about the severe decline in press freedom in the region.

A Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander on Monday criticized Russia for not speaking out against recent attacks on the strategic town of Ain Issa in northeast Syria, also known as Rojava.

A Turkish court Monday sentenced Leyla Guven, a deputy with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was stripped of her parliamentary seat and legal immunity in June, to more than 22 years in prison on terrorism-related charges.

The leader of the Syrian Kurdistan Brotherhood Party (P.B.K) said: The new US representative in the Kurdish-Kurdish talks has come to Syrian Kurdistan and met with the parties to discuss general issues.

Following the cabinet’s approval of the 2021 draft federal budget bill, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Monday, December 21, defended the legislation, saying that it will protect vulnerable groups and cut the salaries of senior government officials.

The Pax Peace Institute in the Netherlands stated in a report that the inability of the government of the Kurdistan Region was the main reason behind the recent demonstrations in the region's second biggest province of Sulaimani.