Government (KRG). As a result of the damage to pipeline infrastructure in the early part of 2014 from repeated ISIS attacks, pipeline exports from Northern Iraq averaged -185 Mb/d in 2014. Increased production from the Tawke and Taq Tact fields in Kurdistan amid the proposed financing backing from Baghdad a

Maliki—as a fellow Shiite—has a strong alliance with Tehran. So do t=e two most prominent Kurdish militias in the Kurdistan Regional Government in Northern Iraq. And the Iranian milita=y is nothing like the slapdash Iraqi security forces—the Iranian Revolut=onary Guards are so well trained and armed they cou

was viewed as a stable country to reside in. Today, Syria tops =he list of displacements. The neighboring countries of Lebanon, Turk=y, Jordan and Northern Iraq have taken the primary responsibility of giving mo=e than three million Syrian refugees access to their territories. Despite the fact=that the larg