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Aveen Karim

Aveen Karim

Assistant Foreign Editor
Abu Dhabi
Aveen Karim is Assistant Foreign Editor at The National, based in Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining the team, she was head of Rudaw English in Erbil. A Kurdish-Romanian-British journalist, she has experience covering geopolitics and security in the Middle East

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The operation is centred on a web of money exchanges in the lakeside town of Ranya. The National / NCA
ExclusiveKurdish people trafficker forced underground by crackdown

Investigation by The National exposes the Kurdish town of Ranya as the region’s hub for people smuggling

MENAMarch 13, 2025
Tariq Tahir
Nick Donaldson / The National
Special investigationHunting the trafficking boss bringing death to shores of Europe

Investigation uncovers criminal network stretching from Iraqi Kurdistan to Caerphilly in Wales

UKMarch 13, 2025
Tariq Tahir
Demonstrators carry a photograph of Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, in Diyarbakir, Turkey. AP
PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after Abdullah Ocalan's call to disarm

Political and democratic conditions need to be in place for disarmament process to succeed, group says

MENAMarch 01, 2025
Aveen Karim
Abdullah Ocalan, leader of the Kurdish Workers Party, is escorted by fighters during a tour of their camp in March 1991. Reuters
Timeline: PKK's four-decade insurgency in Turkey

The militant group's leader issued a historic call to disarm

MENAFebruary 27, 2025
Aveen Karim
Supporters in Diyarbakir, south-eastern Turkey, display a poster depicting Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). AFP
PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan tells Kurdish group to disarm

Ocalan has been held at Imrali island prison in Turkey since 1999

MENAFebruary 27, 2025
Lizzie Porter
Nechirvan Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Region of lraq, in Erbil on October 20, 2024. AFP
Iraqi Kurdistan President urges PKK to disarm for peace

Kurdish and Turkish politicians said Abdullah Ocalan is working on a solution to the conflict

MENAFebruary 19, 2025
Aveen Karim
Hamas fighters in Deir Al Balah, central Gaza. The group has released 21 hostages since the Gaza ceasefire began, in exchange for 730 detained Palestinians. AFP
Hamas says ‘door remains open’ for hostage release if Israel respects truce

Militant group accuses Israel of breaching agreement ‘on a regular basis’

MENAFebruary 11, 2025
Aveen Karim
Displaced Palestinians cross the Netzarim Corridor as they make their way to the northern parts of Gaza. AFP
Israeli forces withdraw from corridor that divided Gaza in two

Military zone holds significant strategic importance

MENAFebruary 10, 2025
Nagham Mohanna
US President Donald Trump has also proclaimed February 9 as 'Gulf of America Day'. AP
Trump says he wants US ‘to buy and own Gaza’

US President commits to seizing enclave and criticises condition of released hostages

USFebruary 09, 2025
Adla Massoud
This handout picture released by the Israeli army on October 26, 2024, shows an Israeli fighter jet departing a hangar at an undisclosed location in Israel. AFP
Iraq complains to UN over Israel using its airspace to attack Iran

Tehran has accused the US of allowing Israeli jets to fly over the neighbouring country

MENAOctober 28, 2024
Aveen Karim
Turkish-backed Syrian fighters preparing rockets to be fired towards SDF-controlled areas in north-eastern Syria. AFP
Turkey strikes suspected Kurdish militant targets in Syria and Iraq

The armed group said hit on defence company Tuas was a warning and message to Turkey

MENAOctober 25, 2024
Aveen Karim
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaking to the press in Kuwait City on Tuesday. AFP
Iran says neighbours will not allow their 'soil and airspace' for attack

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said it had received assurance from countries in the region

MENAOctober 22, 2024
Aveen Karim
A Kurdish man shows his inked finger while voting at a polling station during Iraq's Kurdistan regional parliamentary election in Sulaimaniya, Iraq, on Sunday. Reuters
What are Iraqi Kurds voting for in the long overdue parliamentary elections?

The vote was postponed for two years due to internal political disputes

MENAOctober 20, 2024
Aveen Karim
Israeli security forces secure a road near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea on Saturday. AP
Drone launched at Benjamin Netanyahu's home in central Israel

The Prime Minister was not in the area, his spokesman said

MENAOctober 19, 2024
Aveen Karim
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks at a press conference with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad, part of his regional tour. AFP
Indirect Iran-US talks 'on hold', Foreign Minister Araghchi says

Iranian minister meets Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdul Salam in Muscat

MENAOctober 14, 2024
Aveen Karim
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