How Baghdad’s Customs Checkpoints Have Diminished KRG’s Trade Power
Six months into Baghdad’s customs centralization policy with the Kurdistan…
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Why is the KRG’s Decision Not to Recognize Halabja’s Anniversary as an Official Holiday Causing Controversy?
Recent debates have emerged surrounding the anniversary of the Halabja…
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US-Iraq Trade Drops in 2024 Despite Surge in American Vehicle Imports
US exports to Iraq declined significantly in 2024, dropping 26.4%…
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Kurdistan’s Widening Income Gap: Expenditures Outstrip Earnings
The Iraqi national census and socio-economic surveys published by the…
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Iraq’s Trade Deficit with Turkey Widens to $10.7 Billion Amid Drop in Gold Imports
Despite Turkey’s overall exports to Iraq growing slightly to $11.2…
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How KRG PM Masrour Barzani’s Privatisation Drive is Transforming Relations with the PUK and Baghdad
Since assuming office in 2019, Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime…
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Damascus-SDF Agreement Signals Turkey’s Strategic Compromise: PKK Dissolution in Turkey, SDF Survival in Syria
The newly announced agreement signed today between Ahmad Al-Shara’a, president…
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Four Insights on How Assad’s Remnants Set a Strategic Trap by Exploiting Syria’s Factional Chaos
A few days ago, remnants of the Assad regime ambushed…
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Data Shows 14 Turkish Attacks, 2 PKK Responses Since Ocalan’s Peace Appeal and PKK’s Unilateral Ceasefire
According to the Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT), an organization that…
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Stadium Politics: How Lahur Sheikh Jangi’s Football Arena Threatens PUK’s Political Control in Kurdistan’s Sulaimani
The political feud between the Talabani cousins in the Kurdistan…
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