Iraq’s Kurds Grow in Power: Is Full Sovereignty Near?

A deal with Chevron (NYSE: CVX) is the latest in a series of developments that have increased the economic and political power of the Kurds of northern Iraq. If this trend continues, tensions between the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) and Iraq’s central government in Baghdad may ultimately reach a breaking point. Syria’s civil war and Turkey’s desire to solve its own Kurdish problem could ultimately help the KRG, as LIGNET explains.

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