U. S. Needs to Realize Iraqi National Constants

US opposed Kurdistan referendum on independence but Kurdish leadership announced that the alternative did not provide guarantees

Iran’s Kurds are growing restless, too

A referendum held by Iraqi Kurds is revving up their Iranian cousins

A look at what might happen if Catalonia goes it alone

Spain declared the referendum illegal and invalid

The Economic Case Against an Independent Kurdistan

The costs will be large and exacting

Iran blocks flights to Iraq’s Kurdish region ahead of independence vote

It is Never a Good Time for the Iraqi Kurds to Become Independent

The Turkish government believes that their self-determination represents an existential threat

Iraq will deploy troops if Kurdish referendum turns violent

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Iraq will intervene militarily if the Kurdish region’s planned vote leads to bloodshed

Iraqi Kurds opposing independence vote face threats, mistrust

Most Iraqi Kurds aspire to their own state, but No For Now campaigners see vote as political gamble to benefit presidency

Legitimacy of Kurdish Referendum and possibility of the Federal Supreme Court to abrogate it