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President of the Kurdistan Regional Government Massoud Barzani (Associated Press) **FILE**

Kurdish leader calls for redrawing Mideast borders

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraqi Kurdistan Regional President Masoud Barzani, left, is escorted into West Wing of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2015, where he is scheduled to meet with Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Iraqi Kurdish chief hopes to sidestep region’s clash with Iran

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, right, shakes hands for photographers with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Irbil on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The president of Iraq&#8217;s ethnic Kurdish region declared Tuesday that &#8220;we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq&#8221; as the country&#8217;s Shiite-led government considers new leadership as an immediate step to curb a Sunni insurgent rampage. The comments by Barzani came as he met with Kerry, who is pushing the central government in Baghdad to at least adopt new policies that would give more authorities to Iraq&#8217;s minority Sunnis and Kurds.(AP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq

By Lara Jakes - Associated Press

Members of an Iraqi volunteer force put on their newly issued boots in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has put on hold plans for a counteroffensive to retake Iraqi cities captured by Sunni insurgents in the north and west of the country, instead deploying elite forces in Baghdad to bolster its defenses. (Associated Press photographs)

Kurdish leader cites ‘new reality’ in Iraq, meets with Kerry

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Kurdish President Massoud Barzani, right, shakes hands for photographers with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the presidential palace in Irbil on Tuesday, June 24, 2014. The president of Iraq&#8217;s ethnic Kurdish region declared Tuesday that &#8220;we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq&#8221; as the country&#8217;s Shiite-led government considers new leadership as an immediate step to curb a Sunni insurgent rampage. The comments by Barzani came as he met with Kerry, who is pushing the central government in Baghdad to at least adopt new policies that would give more authorities to Iraq&#8217;s minority Sunnis and Kurds.(AP Photo/ Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Kerry pushes back against independent Kurdish state

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People walk past election campaign posters of different parties, in Irbil, Iraq, 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, day ahead of the self-ruled northern Kurdish region's fourth election for local parliament since 1992. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi Kurds vote for regional assembly

Associated Press

Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq has absorbed more than 30,000 Syrian Kurds since April, housing many of them in U.N. Refugee Agency tents. (Giulio Petrocco/ Special to The Washington Times)

Syrian Kurds find refuge in Iraq’s Kurdish region

By Jacob Resneck and Krasimir Yankov - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press near Sulaimaniyah, Iraq, 160 miles northeast of Baghdad, on Friday, Dec. 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq VP: Death-squad charges politically motivated

By Lara Jakes and Yahya Barzanji - Associated Press

Illustration: Kurdish-inhabited areas

TIMMERMAN: Iraqi Christians to Congress: Please help

By Kenneth R. Timmerman - The Washington Times

Kurdish guards fire on protesters in Iraq; 2 killed

By Yahya Barzanji - Associated Press

In this June 27, 2009, file photo, Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, left, and President Jalal Talabani, right, react, at a ceremony marking the 2003 death of Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Obama bid to pick Iraq leader spurned

By Eli Lake - The Washington Times

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