Iraq/Kurdistan: Update: Kurdistan and the Battle Over Oil

Oct 8, 2018 | New York Times
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In an election that did not capture the attention of most of the world, residents of the semiautonomous Kurdistan region of Iraq voted in a parliamentary election last Sunday — a year after a failed vote for independence. The election, whose results have been hotly debated, is the latest chapter in the long and tortured struggle over control of the oil-rich region.