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Iraq and the Kurds: The High-Stakes Hydrocarbons Gambit

Middle East Report N°120, 19 April 2012

A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier watches over as fuel trucks head through Haj Umran border crossing to Iran, in northeastern Iraq July 20, 2010. Photo: Reuters / Azad Lashkari

The political standoff between Iraq’s Kurds and the government in Baghdad has left pressing disputes over oil and territories unresolved, intensifying the likelihood of conflict.

Recent Reports

Iraq and the Kurds: The High-Stakes Hydrocarbons Gambit, Middle East Report N°120, 19 Apr 2012

The political standoff between Iraq’s Kurds and the government in Baghdad has left pressing disputes over oil and territories unresolved, intensifying the likelihood of conflict.

Failing Oversight: Iraq’s Unchecked Government, Middle East Report N°113, 26 Sep 2011

Spreading corruption threatens to undermine the significant progress Iraq has made toward reducing violence and strengthening state institutions.

Iraq and the Kurds: Confronting Withdrawal Fears, Middle East Report N° 103, 28 Mar 2011

Iraq’s new coalition government and the Kurdistan regional government in Erbil must start talks on disputed internal boundaries or risk an outbreak of violent conflict along a “trigger” line dividing army troops and Kurdish regional guard forces, the peshmergas.

Loose Ends: Iraq’s Security Forces Between U.S. Drawdown and Withdrawal, Middle East Report N°99, 26 Oct 2010

The main threat to Iraq’s political order today emanates not from an organised insurgency but from within the political system itself.

Iraq's Uncertain Future: Elections and Beyond, Middle East Report N°94, 25 Feb 2010

As a rule, Iraq’s post-Saddam elections have tended to magnify pre-existing negative trends.

Iraq’s New Battlefront: The Struggle over Ninewa, Middle East Report N°90, 28 Sep 2009

Violence in much of Iraq is at lower levels than in years past but, in Ninewa, the carnage continues.

Iraq and the Kurds: Trouble Along the Trigger Line, Middle East Report N°88, 8 Jul 2009

As sectarian violence in Iraq has ebbed over the past year, a new and potentially just as destructive political conflict has arisen between the federal government and the Kurdistan regional government in Erbil.

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Iraq's Provincial Elections: The Stakes, Middle East Report N°82, 27 Jan 2009

On 31 January, Iraqis will head to the polls in fourteen of eighteen governorates to elect new provincial councils.

Turkey and Iraqi Kurds: Conflict or Cooperation?, Middle East Report N°81, 13 Nov 2008

At a time when rising Arab-Kurdish tensions again threaten Iraq’s stability, neighbouring Turkey has begun to cast a large shadow over Iraqi Kurdistan.

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Oil for Soil: Toward a Grand Bargain on Iraq and the Kurds, Middle East Report N°80, 28 Oct 2008

A long-festering conflict over Kirkuk and other disputed territories is threatening to disrupt the current fragile relative peace in Iraq by blocking legislative progress and political accommodation.

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Conflict History

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Iraq and the Kurds: The Struggle over Kirkuk

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