The US-Kurdish Problematique
... and delegations with the newly born KRG (May 1992) brought to the third stage in their mutual relations to the extent that an overt and official relationship during the 1990s was established. This third stage stabilized America’s relationship with the Kurds of Iraq from thenceforth and into the twenty-first century. This official US interactive relationship with the KRG sowed the seeds for the fourth transformation of the US–Kurdish relationship into an institutionalized one of strategic importance from 9/11 onwards, which, in turn, evolved into an explicit US Kurdish policy within the Iraqi framework in the ...