The Bursting Kurdish Bubble

in the news | August 14, 2014

The Weekly Wonk

Emily Schneider, Justin Lynch:

All of these things have allowed ISIS to continue their advance and drive at the heart of the Kurdish independent region, i.e. oil refineries in the north, and so the bubble has burst on dreams of an independent Kurdistan.

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