Kurdish Areas in Northern Iraq Are Collapsing into Anarchy Hunger, Deprivation Deepen as Factions Bicker over ControlINTERNAL bickering among Kurdish rebel groups and a three-montheconomic blockade by Baghdad...Michael Georgy, Monitor
The capital of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq is only 80 kilometers from Mosul and 50 from the frontlines of the one of the country’s largest ever military operations. Yet the city of Erbil so far has felt few shockwaves emanating from the conflict. It’s a warm ...
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This chapter is on relations between the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) and the Iraqi central government from 2003 until 2018. After more than a decade since the establishment of the federal system in Iraq in 2005, the central government and the KRG constantly failed to commit to the fed...
The move came amid rising tensions between Baghdad and the Kurdish region over the independence referendum held Monday in the KRG-controlled areas in northern Iraq. The Turkish government has voiced strong opposition to the referendum, while warning of taking countermeasures against the KRG if it ...
The financial hardship has increased after the Iraqi forces retook control of the oil-rich province of Kirkuk and some other oil wells in the disputed areas on October 16. Tensions have been running high between Baghdad and the region of Kurdistan after the Kurds held a controversial referendum...
However, after the 1991 Kurdish uprising successfully liberated some areas of Kurdistan, the leftist rhetoric almost completely disappeared in the dominant Iraqi Kurdish discourse. I argue that, even from the 1960s to the 1980s, the adoption of Marxist rhetoric by the Iraqi Kurdish leadership was ...
Since the withdrawal of the Syrian President's forces from the ethnically Kurdish areas in the early months of the current civil war, the inhabitants have declared a self-rule government along the lines of the Kurdistan regional government in northern Iraq. For Syrian Kurds, the creation of a ...
BAQUBA, Iraq, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The council of Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Tuesday rejected conducting Kurdish independence referendum slated for Sept. 25 in some of its territories, which are part of the disputed areas between Baghdad and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. ...
Sinjar, is part of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh. The city is mainly inhabited by Yazidis with minorities of Arabs and Turkomans. The withdrawal of the Peshmerga forces came a day after the Iraqi forces pushed into Kirkuk province which is part of the disputed areas outside the Kurdi...