Autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan watching Syrian conflict with growing unease amid suffering of Kurds

Things look a lot better in Iraqi Kurdistan than they do in federal Iraq

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ERBIL, Iraq — Many of the men who hold positions of power in Iraqi Kurdistan spent their lives struggling for a Kurdish state, from fighting in the hills to languishing in jails to lobbying for support in distant Western capitals. What they accomplished…? | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles