...
peshmerga
force...’. More details in
http://cabinet.gov.krd/uploads/documents/Kurdistan%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20Law%20English__2007_09_06_h14m0s42.pdf
(last accessed March, 2018).
4
. More information in
http://www.iqilaw.com/draft-constitution-of-the-iraqi-kurdistan-region/
(last accessed, March 2018).
5
. See
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/iraq/tal.htm
(last accessed March, 2018).
6
. Interview with Commander Najat Ali Salih, (Black Tiger Camp, Mala Qara, 2 April 2016).
7
. Interview with Commander ...
... on the other hand, the approach may as well generate more projects and strengthen Russian positions in Iraq.
Until now, the Kremlin has been lobbying Russian firms operating in Iraq with exceptional results. For example, Gazprom Neft is surveying in Iraqi Kurdistan and has managed to enlist the effective cooperation from its government. At the same time, it is developing the Badra project jointly with Baghdad. Credit should certainly go to Russian top officials who displayed outstanding diplomatic skills ...
... prevailing in the Middle East and elsewhere affects the policies of regional and global powers alike. Russia is no exception. In recent years, Moscow has taken steps to develop contacts with Kurdish political movements and establish economic cooperation with Iraqi Kurdistan, where Russian oil and gas companies have set up shop. The February 2013 visit to Russia by Kurdistan Regional Government President Massoud Barzani, dubbed by the Kurdish people as the “first official visit,” served as a significant ...
... Liaison)
On a number of levels, the situation between the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the ethnic Kurds of Syria, Iraq and Turkey is creating a power shift that no one is discussing. In this article, I will explain why: 1) The Kurds have an ... ... political homeland; 2) Tehran's strategy of expanding Shia influence over the Sunnis is possible because of an independent Kurdistan; 3) Moscow is orchestrating an independent Kurdistan and 4) Turkey's recalcitrance against the United States ...
... rapprochement. Although a major breakthrough is still a pie in the sky, the Iranian foreign ministry appears overtly happy about "normalization" with Saudi Arabia.
Quite meaningful in the emerging regional arrangement appears to be Turkey, Iraq's influential neighbor that has historically been opposed to self-determination and independence for the Kurds. Under the new situation, Kurdistan appears to be emerging as a moderate regional actor warring against terrorism. Since Kurdistan is increasingly seen by the West in this capacity, Ankara, which has maintained a fairly balanced relationship with Baghdad, may become deeply interested ...
... emanating the Islamic State.
However, while pushing southward, the Islamists turned around and launched an offensive on the Kurdish territories, and this meant the situation for the United States changed dramatically. As a result, Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, and key U.S. interests were threatened. It is no secret that the United States supports the idea of an independent Kurdistan. It wants to control Kurdish oil, and to enjoy the possibility of using the “Kurdish factor” to put pressure ...
... positions of his friends, and alienate all neutrals while he was gradually winning the war, and at a time when UN chemical inspectors were in Damascus? The sceptic observer cannot help but remember the false intelligence on which the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was founded; Saddam Hussein did not in fact possess weapons of mass destruction. The parallel is inescapable. In May, Carla Del Ponte, leading member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, asserted that there ...
On June 17, 2013 RIAC staff members
Anton Tsvetov
and
Aleksandr Eliseev
took part in the panel discussion "
Iraqi Kurdistan: the new political and economic status and the strategy of Massoud Barzani
" . The event was organized by the
Carnegie Moscow Center
.
The Representative of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Russia and the CIS countries
Xosawi Bebekir
...
