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The US-Kurdish Problematique

... Increasingly, state and non-state interactions can be seen to determine the making of politics: US relations with the Kurds of Iraq bear testimony to this. From 1994 onwards the US State Department increased active working with the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) as a vital component of the Iraqi opposition. The leading Kurdish role in US plans for ‘regime change’ in Iraq, along with the convergence of the United States and Kurdish interests, led gradually to the onset of a US Kurdish policy. Whilst US ...

20.05.2020

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Op-Edge: Why is it almost impossible for Kurds to secede from Iraq?

.... But in fact, the Kurdish dream is still out of reach and would most-likely remain so for a long time. Before speaking about the referendum itself, we should speak about the timing of it. In other words, why did the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) leadership decide to do it in such a critical time? The answer is definitely related to the ongoing events in Iraq and the instability followed the rise of Islamic State. Damascus and Baghdad are currently busy fighting a major terrorist threat on ...

09.10.2017

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