United States in turn saw the limits of Kurdish loyalty when leaders Irbil ignored Washington's pleas to delay the referendum and then opposed U.S. ... patchwork of competing militias, coexists uneasily in areas that Iraqi security forces and Kurdish peshmerga control. ..…
During those years, many people, mostly Kurdish civilians -- including activists, politicians, journalists and businesspeople -- were kidnapped and murdered. ... In November 2015, for example, Tahir Elçi, a prominent Kurdish human-rights lawyer, was shot dead in broad daylight during a..…
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