Kurds edge closer to backing crucial Iraq oil law
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An oil law crucial to resolving political divisions in Iraq edged closer to approval after Kurds said some key issues were resolved, officials said on Sunday.
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A coalition of Iraq's main two Kurdish parties has moved into second place behind a Shi'ite Islamist alliance in the vote count following the Jan. 30 elections, partial results released Monday showed.
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The local government in Iraq's northern region of Kurdistan said it had yet to see a draft hydrocarbon law approved by the cabinet in Baghdad, possibly complicating passage of the landmark legislation.
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Iraq pledged on Tuesday to rein in Kurdish rebels who are launching attacks on Turkey from mountain hideouts near the border after Ankara threatened to send forces into Iraqi territory to confront the guerrillas.
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Iraq's parliament agreed on Thursday to   begin looking at a potentially divisive draft law on federalism   that minority Sunnis fear could break up the country and leave   them with little access to its oil wealth.
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Kurdish guerrillas could strike oil pipelines if Turkish troops attack them, a pro-rebel news agency quoted one of their leaders on Friday as saying.
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CIZRE, Turkey  - Turkey said on Sunday that a military solution was still on the table to tackle Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, while Washington urged dialogue to avert an incursion it fears will destabilize the region.
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Kurdish leaders from rival factions in northern Iraq have united in hopes of winning a large bloc of seats in Sunday's National Assembly vote and say they will insist that either the presidency or the prime minister's job goes to a Kurd.
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Iraq's oil minister said Tuesday that crude oil began to flow from his country's northern oil-rich Kirkuk to a Turkish export terminal last week &#151; for the first time since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003.
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The Hunt Oil Company of Dallas has become the first international company to receive permission to drill for oil in the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq since the local government issued an oil-and-gas law last month.
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The legislation could allow Shiites in the south to form semi-independent regions, like Kurdistan in the north.
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Turks broadly support a strike into Iraq, but that could play into the hands of the PKK.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 24 -- Leaders of Iraq's oil-rich Kurdish region have apparently approved a draft oil law that will be presented to Iraqi lawmakers in coming weeks, an eagerly awaited breakthrough that is expected to professionalize and expand drilling in the country.
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The Oil Ministry cast doubt Sunday on statements indicating the Kurds had agreed to support a draft oil law that would divide revenues among all Iraqi factions and meet a key U.S. benchmark in Iraq.
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A law that could shape Iraq's future by clearing the way for investment in its oil fields is deadlocked by a battle for control of the reserves and no end to the impasse is in sight, lawmakers and officials say.
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Many Kurdish groups, including the two major Kurdish parties, have agreed to form a single candidate list to run in Iraq's elections scheduled for Jan. 30, Kurdish leaders said on Wednesday.
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Despite Sunni objections, Shiite lawmakers are pushing legislation that would carve Iraq into largely autonomous regions.