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following a 10-day standoff between Iraqi army units and Kurdish pesh merga troops in October, after Maliki sent the army toward the disputed city of Kirkuk. That move followed a series of skirmishes and mobilizations along the “Green Line” separating Kurdistan from Arab Iraq and a series of attacks in th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027117 →7. These protests erupted during a constitutional crisis and as an expanding Arab-Kurd conflict has become increasingly militarized. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was incapacitated by a stroke on Dec. 17 and has been out of the countryfor treatment. Iraq’s constitution specifies a line of succession — but with
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027117 →following a 10-day standoff between Iraqi army units and Kurdish pesh merga troops in October, after Maliki sent the army toward the disputed city of Kirkuk. That move followed a series of skirmishes and mobilizations along the "Green Line" separating Kurdistan from Arab Iraq and a series of attacks in th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028743 →27. These protests erupted during a constitutional crisis and as an expanding Arab-Kurd conflict has become increasingly militarized. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was incapacitated by a stroke on Dec. 17 and has been out of the countryfor treatment. Iraq's constitution specifies a line of succession - but with
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028743 →rs that using the current turmoil to gain concessions from Baghdad on issues such as independent oil exports and the future of the disputed city of Kirkuk will backfire. Washington is loath EFTA00669742 to take sides between Erbil and Baghdad. And if it does, it is unlikely to act to antagonize Mr.
on, these efforts would have failed. EFTA00669741 The head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq at the time, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, and President Jalal Talabani struggled to get Washington and Tehran to work together. Despite the collapse of the nuclear negotiations that were then taking place between Iran
llowing a 10-day standoff between Iraqi army units and Kurdish pesh merga troops in October, after Maliki sent the army toward the disputed city of Kirkuk. That move followed a series of skirmishes and mobilizations along the "Green Line" separating Kurdistan from Arab Iraq and a series of attacks in
These protests erupted during a constitutional crisis and as an expanding Arab-Kurd conflict has become increasingly militarized. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was incapacitated by a stroke on Dec. 17 and has been out of the countryfor treatment. Iraq's constitution specifies a line of succession — but wit
Entities connected to both Kirkuk and Jalal Talabani

Barack Obama
PERSON
Baghdad
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATION
Tehran
LOCATION
Tunisia
LOCATION
Maliki
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tripoli
LOCATION
Morocco
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Damascus
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Kurdistan
LOCATION
Yemen
LOCATION
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
North Africa
LOCATION
Mosul
LOCATION
Joe Biden
PERSON
Nouri al-Maliki
PERSON