Weeks of escalating tensions between Iraq’s central government and the country’s northern Kurdistan region following an independence referendum on September 25 culminated in the resignation of iconic Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani on Sunday, October 29. Known as the ‘lord of the mountain’, Barzani told a closed session in the Kurdish parliament in Erbil that he would […]

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