The Real Cash Crisis in Kurdistan

Every year, as Iraq approaches the end of its fiscal cycle, the federal government delays sending the Kurdistan Region’s salaries. Officials often blame these delays on a so-called “cash shortage.” These claims, sometimes echoed by Kurdish MPs in Baghdad, eventually become the justification for withholding the final months of salary payments. But how real is […]
Iraq’s Federal Oil and Gas Law: Between the Constitution and Political Disputes

A Cycle of Conflict Instead of Solutions Iraq once again finds itself trapped in a recurring scenario—returning to complications instead of solutions, conflict instead of cooperation, and suspicion instead of goodwill. The latest dispute was triggered by contracts signed between the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and two American energy companies in the gas sector. The […]