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Iraqi Kurdish officials describe 'different country' after Mosul

Two top Iraqi Kurdish officials, speaking in Washington, say Iraq is divided between an Islamist state, a democratic Kurdistan Region and a 'failed government' in Baghdad.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (centre, R) talks with Fuad Hussein (centre,L), chief of staff at the presidency of the Kurdistan Regional Government, while accompanied by Kurdish regional foreign relations minister Falah Mustafa Bakir (R) and other officials, at Arbil International Airport  June 24, 2014. Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from the political process in Baghdad after their forces took control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk. Peshmerga fighters,
US Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Fuad Hussein (L), chief of staff at the presidency of the Kurdistan Regional Government, while accompanied by Falah Mustafa Bakir (R), head of the external relations department of the KRG, and other officials, at Erbil airport, June 24, 2014. — REUTERS/Brendan Smialowski

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