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Massoud Barzani
August 7, 2020
Zack Kopplin
How Mike Pompeo Built a Blood-for-Oil Pipeline
The State Department, a conservative-connected shell company, and a key Kurdish crime family team up to siphon Syrian oil for U.S. investors.
July 24, 2020
Zack Kopplin
How Taxpayer Dollars May Have Bought a Kurdish Strongman’s Beverly Hills Mansions
A story of Iraqi politics, Pentagon oil contracts, and an ongoing foreign policy disaster
December 22, 2011
Larry Diamond
Iraqi Kurdistan Is Booming. Will It Ever Be a Separate State?
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Jeffrey Goldberg
The Usual Suspect
February 6, 2005
Annia Ciezadlo
Party Foul
April 21, 2003
Elizabeth Rubin
Land's End

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