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Japan expands footprint in Iraq with KRG office

In a meeting with Kurdish Foreign Relations Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir, Japanese Ambassador to Iraq Fumio Iwai announced the new planned office, which will allow Japanese officials to work more directly with the Kurdish government without having to go through its embassy in Baghdad, or the Shiite Arab government operating there. As Iraqi Kurdistan is not a full […]

Frances Martel writes for Breitbart:

In a meeting with Kurdish Foreign Relations Minister Falah Mustafa Bakir, Japanese Ambassador to Iraq Fumio Iwai announced the new planned office, which will allow Japanese officials to work more directly with the Kurdish government without having to go through its embassy in Baghdad, or the Shiite Arab government operating there. As Iraqi Kurdistan is not a full state, Japan cannot open an embassy in Erbil, though the autonomous region has expanded its influence significantly as it has become the most reliable bastion of resistance against the Islamic State (ISIS).