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Kurdistan Regional Government

Analysis Feature Op-Ed 

Understanding the Kurdish Student Protests

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Iraq, Kurdistan, Kurdistan Regional Government, Protests

Sarkawt Shamsulddin provides his insights on the recent student protests in Kurdistan, what led to them, and what they mean for the region.

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KRG Independence Rally, Creative Commons
Event Review 

Event review: an ambassador without a country

January 22, 2019February 27, 2019 Baghdad, Barzani, Erbil, Iraq, KRG, Kurdish Referendum, Kurdistan Regional Government

Kurdistan Regional Government Rep. Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman discusses Kurdish politics since the KRG’s 2017 independence referendum and the Erbil-Baghdad relationship at Harvard Law School.

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Operation Provide Comfort
Analysis 

Looking to Syria: No-fly zones and political stability in Iraq and Libya

November 5, 2016November 6, 2016 Barack Obama, Dylan Maguire, George H.W. Bush, Iran, Iraq, Kurdistan Regional Government, Kuwait, Libya, NATO, no-fly zone, Operation Provide Comfort, Operation Unified Protector, Qadhafi, Syria, Turkey

This article appeared in JMEPP’s Spring 2016 print edition. The ongoing civil war in Syria has reignited interest in no-fly

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