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Are Our Mideast Wars Forever?

October 24, 2017

Are Our Mideast Wars Forever? “The Kurds have no friends but the mountains,” is an old lament. Last week, it must have been very much on Kurdish minds. As their U.S. allies watched, the Kurdish peshmerga fighters were run out of Kirkuk and all the territory they had captured fighting ISIS alongside the Americans. The […]

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Iran’s Top General Meets With Kurdish President Barzani As U.S. Neocons Push For War

October 15, 2017

Iran’s Top General Meets With Kurdish President Barzani As U.S. Neocons Push For War In an unexpected diplomatic turn of events which underscores the seriousness of escalating tensions between the Iraqi government and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the head of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard (which last week were designated by the US as a terrorist […]

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Kurdish Referendum Roils the Mideast

October 7, 2017

Kurdish Referendum Roils the Mideast The Kurdish referendum seeking independence from Iraq has created more uncertainty in the turbulent Mideast with Israel appearing to see value in the new chaos, reports ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. One week after Kurdish leader Masud Barzani held his referendum on Kurdish independence from Iraq (with both the referendum and […]

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Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports

October 6, 2017

Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan’s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by Rudaw. “In the case of northern Iraq, Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form […]

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Iran Deploys Tanks To Border With Iraqi Kurdistan

October 2, 2017

Iran Deploys Tanks To Border With Iraqi Kurdistan Days before last week’s Kurdistan referendum, Iran took steps to isolate and punish the Iraqi Kurdistan region and the government in Erbil (KRG). This included closing Iranian airspace to northern Iraq’s two international airports and sending Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard forces to conduct drills along the northwest […]

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OPEC’s No. 2 Faces Civil War Threat

September 14, 2017

OPEC’s No. 2 Faces Civil War Threat Tribal violence in the southern regions of Iraq is erupting on sectarian lines, threatening safety and security at oil facilities, officials told Kurdistan24. A majority of Iraq’s law enforcement network has congregated in the northern and western portions of the country to contain the efforts of the Islamic […]

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ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: “Raqqa’s Rockefellers”, Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection

November 29, 2015

ISIS Oil Trade Full Frontal: “Raqqa’s Rockefellers”, Bilal Erdogan, KRG Crude, And The Israel Connection “Effectively, we have been financially discriminated against for a long time. By early 2014, when we did not receive the budget, we decided we need to start thinking about independent oil sales” —  Ashti Hawrami, Kurdistan’s minister for natural resources […]

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Kurd Oil Producers Unrelenting to Boost Supply at low Prices

January 21, 2015

Kurd Oil Producers Unrelenting to Boost Supply at low Prices Oil producers in Iraqi Kurdistan are unrelenting in their goal to boost output even after the collapse in international prices to below $50 a barrel. Genel Energy Plc (GENL), headed by former BP Plc chief Tony Hayward, is sticking with plans to increase capacity 74 percent to 400,000 […]

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