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Stingy Baghdad Harms the ISIS Fight
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Juleanna Glover points to the need for financing of the Kurdistan regional government in Iraq as the central government in Baghdad has failed to make payments to the KRG for its share of national oil income. The KRG would receive 17% of Iraq's national oil income under negotiated agreements, but only $2 billion of $12 billion owed to KRG has been transferred in 2015. The Kurds also have to support 1.8 million refugees from Syria and Iraq with the ongoing civil war. The World Bank predicts a shortfall in funding for KRG of $1.5 billion in 2015, and it needs a $2.4 billion bridge loan. Peshmarga forces it is reported have not been paid for 3 months even as the Kurds have borne a disproportionate share of the burden in the war.
Iraq- Kurdistan oil deal in Dec. 2014
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Kurdistan will export oil under Iraq's oil company SOMO and Kurdish officials will sit on the board of SOMO. Iraq plans to export 3.8 million barrels a day in 2015, adding to supply already on the oil markets that is pressuring prices.
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