Q&A: Falah Mustafa Bakir, KRG Foreign Relations Minister
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Despite a lack of close coordination with Peshmerga, federal security forces started an offensive to retake the IS group's last major stronghold in northern Iraq.
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Iraqi forces are advancing toward Ana, Rawa and al-Qaim – an operation that promises to clear the last major IS strongholds in Anbar province and reclaim the Akkas gas field.
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Besieged by international pressure to delay its independence referendum, the KRG gets geopolitical backup from a Rosneft agreement to underwrite oil and gas export pipelines.
Q&A: Sherwan Zrar, Kurdistan voting commission spokesperson
Beyond the political debates swirling around the KRG independence referendum is a fundamental logistical question: are the resources in place to hold the vote as scheduled?
Q&A: Nasraddin Sayid Sindi, Kurdistan’s disputed territories chief
The chairman of the General Board of Kurdistan Areas outside the Kurdistan Region Administration discusses efforts to hold the referendum in areas outside formal KRG control, and expectations of Iraqi security forces afterward.
Shell accelerates Iraq drawdown with Majnoon exit
Negotiations begin over handing back the Majnoon operatorship, months after stake in West Qurna 1 was put up for sale, highlighting one major oil company's resistance to Iraq's tough terms.
Parliament casts toothless vote to dismiss Kirkuk governor
Relations continue to deteriorate between leaders in Kurdistan and Baghdad ahead of a controversial independence referendum.
Hawija offensive hamstrung by Baghdad-Erbil mistrust
Long-standing disputes over Kirkuk and its oil threaten to turn allies against each other as they prepare to chase IS from one of its last strongholds in Iraq.
Pressure Mounts on Iraqi Kurds to Cancel Independence Vote
Western officials are trying to avert the next war in Iraq
UN votes to help Iraq collect evidence against Islamic State
Mosul’s children return to school after ISIS defeat: ‘We are not giving up on learning’
What do Yazidis make of Kurdish independence?
Turkish warplanes kill three Kurdish militants in northern Iraq: army
Kurdish president vows to press on with independence referendum
Iraq anti-graft task force fishes for ‘sharks’
