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Kurdish Oil Exports under Threat after Independence Referendum. by Diane Munro

The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) controversial referendum on independence has sparked fears of a disruption to Iraq’s northern oil exports amid a firestorm of opposition from the central government in Baghdad, neighboring Turkey and Iran, as well as Western powers. Global oil prices scaled two-year highs last week on concerns that the backlash against the September 2

Citizens in Baghdad envisage a united Iraq with its territorial integrity respected Iraqi women walk on the street in Erbil near banners supporting the referendum for Kurdish independence. Alaa Al Marjani / Reuters Hayat Hassan is a novelist living in Baghdad. "The outcome of Monday's vote is not in question. The Kurds of Iraq have sought independence for decades. It's als

A view of Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, uploaded Dec. 26, 2013. (photo by Baghdad International Airport/Facebook) BAGHDAD, Iraq — Even if it were true that Sumerians built the first airport at Nasiriyah in 5000 BC, as Iraqi Transport Minister Kazem Finjan claimed in October, they would be shocked at the state of Iraqi aviation today. While Kazem said Iraq's early set

Download PDF: iraqs-regional-decentralisation-debate-is-heating-up-by-michael-knights As the battle for Mosul looms, however, national fragility may require postponing larger boundary-drawing initiatives. The decentralisation of security, spending and administrative power is regularly cited as a means of reducing tension in a post-Islamic State Iraq. The logic is comm

Download PDF: iraq-finance-minister-fights-on-two-fronts-hoshyar-zebari-faces-graft-claims-as-he-tries-to-save-economy-by-erika-solomon Baghdad, SEPTEMBER 11, 2016 Hoshyar Zebari should have been preparing for loan negotiations that could save his country from economic collapse. Instead, Iraq’s finance minister sat in his office waving a file of papers he claims prove that bi