Feyli (tribe) in the context of "Khanaqin"

Feylis (Kurdish: فه‌یلی/فەێلی, romanized: Feylî), also known as Feyli Kurds, (Xwarin Kurds) (Kurdish: کوردەێل خوارین/کوردەیل خوارین, Kurdên Xwarîn) is a Kurdish tribe based in the borderlands between Iraq and Iran. They speak Feyli (also known as "Ilami" or "Southern Kurdish Feyli") which is classified as a sub-dialect of Southern Kurdish, but is commonly mistaken as being identical with the neighboring but distinct Feyli dialect of Northern Luri. Linguist Ismaïl Kamandâr Fattah argues that the Kurdish Feyli dialect and other Southern Kurdish sub-dialects are 'interrelated and largely mutually intelligible.'

Feylis are recognized as ethnic Kurds in the Iraqi constitution. In January 2019, Feyli Kurds received a reserved minority seat in Wasit Governorate, which was won by Mazen Abdel Moneim Gomaa with 5,078 votes in the 2018 Iraqi parliamentary election.