Is Iraqi Kurdistan splitting apart ... again? - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Denise Natali

Denise Natali

Sep 25, 2015

A picture taken on July 3, 2014 shows the building of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region's parliament in Arbil, Kurdistan's capital in northern Iraq. The president of Kurdistan, Massud Barzani asked its parliament to start organising a referendum on independence. AFP PHOTO / SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images) — The building of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region's parliament in Erbil, Kurdistan's capital in northern Iraq, July 4, 2014. — SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images

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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki (R) speaks next to his Iraqi Kurdish counterpart Nechirvan Barzani during a meeting of the Council of Ministers in Arbil, about 350 km (220 miles) north of Baghdad June 9, 2013. Maliki visited the Kurdistan region on Sunday for the first time in more than two years, in an attempt to resolve a long-running dispute over oil and land that has strained Iraq's unity to the limit. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX10H5T

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