Iraq’s Kurdish parties face government split as Baghdad’s influence grows

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Iraqi Kurdistan is on the brink of a historic rupture, with the region's two most powerful political dynasties clashing for power, threatening to overturn a twenty-year-old agreement. The Barzani family, which dominates Erbil, and the Talabani family, with its stronghold in Sulaymaniyah, have turned the dispute over government formation into an open confrontation, while Washington, Ankara, Tehran and Baghdad are watching developments with differ…

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The growing tensions between the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (PDK) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (UPK) risk weakening Kurdish autonomy in Iraq, just as the region faces economic difficulties, instability

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A division in Iraqi Kurdistan... a struggle of wealth and influence between two ruling families...