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In Kurdistan: no friends but the mountains … and the US

April 24, 2014Conflict & Justice

All week long, we’ve been focusing on Iraq. Now, we turn to Kurdistan, where the view is altogether different from the rest of Iraq. What happens when the U.S. pulls out?

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