Meanwhile, the major population centers under Kurdish control are held by either the KDP Peshmerga or the ... group still holds Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. And the Iraqi government is ...

Moreover, the KDP is the rival party of Iran's traditional KRI partner, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, or PUK, which Tehran had leveraged against Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war from ...

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