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Syria, Iraq – Why The Kurdish Independence Project Failed

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The bid of the Kurdish Barzani clan for an independent Kurdistan in north Iraq and beyond has utterly failed. Masoud Barzani, the strongman of the Iraqi Kurdish region, had called for the referendum to divert from his government’s financial problems. Other Kurdish powerhouses saw it as a last attempt by Barzani to save his failing […]

Iraqi Kurds Overwhelmingly Back Independence…

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Voters in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq overwhelmingly backed the Kurdistan Regional Government’s push to break away from Baghdad, official preliminary referendum figures showed on Wednesday. The election commission said 92.73 percent voted yes compared to about 7.27 percent who said no. The turnout was 72.61 percent. The result of Monday’s is non-binding. World […]

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