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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 ...

20.05.2020

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

... 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 their mainland, along with Kurds of course. But at the same time the ongoing distraction and chaos in Iraq in the past 4 years, gave the KRG a better experience in self-rule away from Baghdad. The expansion of ISIS have literally cut Iraq into two halves, an Arabic half, and a Kurdish one. Geographically speaking, this offered the Iraqi Kurds a further momentum of a de-facto independence....

09.10.2017

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