National Politics

U.S. Army cross into Kuwait as the last convoy pulls out of Iraq

Iraqi political crisis as US completes pullout

American troops are gone, and a political crisis shows Iraq's old divisions may prove stronger than its fledgling institutions.

A man fishes across from the Green Zone on the Tigris River in Baghdad December 2, 2011. The last 13,000 U.S. troops will pull out of Iraq by the end of the year. (SHANNON STAPLETON/Reuters)

Military ceremony marks the beginning of the unknown

U.S. troops will be gone by the end of the year, and a truly sovereign Iraq is now a country with an uncertain fate.

Barham Salih, prime minister of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government, in his office in Erbil. (BEN LANDO/Iraq Oil Report)

Q&A: Barham Salih

Shortly after signing watershed deals with ExxonMobil, the KRG's prime minister discusses the resource curse, the U.S. withdrawal, and the future of Kurdistan's oil sector.

Iraqi Kurds protest in Khanaqin, in Diyala province, over a directive to replace all Kurdish flags flying at government buildings with those of the Iraqi state. (ADAM AL-ATBI/Iraq Oil Report)

Kurdish flag controversy highlights unresolved disputes

Kurdish-Arab disputes erupted into protests after Prime Minister Maliki banned the Kurdistan Regional Government flag from the contested city of Khanaqin.

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Green Zone ice cream shop out of most fruit toppings because army inspections at checkpoints want to break seal and physically inspect.
@Spencer_Freeman so where has it been confirmed in public?
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