Hardline response from Iraq and Iran to Kurdish referendum could lead to conflict with potential to waste unity of Iraqi stateWith Islamic State days from being ousted from its Syrian stronghold of Raqqa,and ejected two months ago from Mosul in Iraq, the western anti-Isis alliance should be congratulating itself.
Instead, and it finds the two ground forces that did most to expel Isis,which are armed, trained and supported by Washington, or at each other’s throats,with tensions concentrated on the oil city of Kirkuk.
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Source: guardian.co.uk