IRAQ

 

Oil Roils Kurdish Politics

 

The Arab Spring, resource competition, the fight for legitimacy and power in Baghdad, civil war in Syria, and tensions over sanctions against Iran have all combined to produce a perfect storm of destabilizing factors in Iraqi and regional politics. Oil, increasingly a lightning rod for national and regional rivalries, is now moving center stage of inter-Kurdish power dynamics, as Rafiq Latta reports.

 

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