Iraq export pipeline closure wreaks havoc on Kurdish region economy

Losses resulting from shutdown of conduit to Turkey estimated at more than $4 billion The once-thriving oil industry in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq has ground to a halt as the closure of the export pipeline to Turkey, now in its sixth month, continues, inflicting economic devastation. In late March, Turkey halted flows of oil produced in the region after an arbitrat

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With Iraq’s new budget, Baghdad goes after Kurdish oil. By Joseph Daher *

According to the new budget, Erbil will now have to deliver no less than 400,000 barrels of oil per day to Baghdad before it can receive its share of the federal budget. [Getty] On June 21, 2023 Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid ratified the country’s long-awaited three-year federal budget bill. On June 11, the bulk of MPs had voted for a three-year budget bill of around 19

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The Rise and Fall of Kurdish Power in Iraq. By Bilal Wahab*

If the 1991 Gulf War led to the birth of the Kurdistan Regional Government, the US invasion in 2003 propelled it into the future.   At the start of the invasion, Iraqi Kurdistan served as the northern front of the war, elevating the status of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The destruction of President Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime buttressed Kurdish righ

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