Iraq Oil Spat Puts Focus On Federal Powers
The signing of a contract by oil giant ExxonMobil with Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region has caused outrage in Baghdad, becoming the focal point of simmering tensions between Iraq's Kurds and Baghdad over control of the country's huge energy reserves, and raising wider concerns about Iraq's future integrity. More A top Iraqi parliament deputy says an Iraqi fighter plane will patrol the country's airspace next week for the first time since 2003. More Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government has presented a bill to parliament banning the possession of weapons by anyone except military and state security personnel. More |
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