Iraq’s future stability and US regional interests depend on Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Iraqi Kurdistan’s neighbours will not allow the upcoming referendum to trigger wholesale changes in the regional order.
Integrating Shia militias into the Iraqi state is a good way to limit their powers and control them.
Trade, Iranian influence and regional instability are drawing Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan closer than ever before.
Turkey will soon have to contend with a Western-backed nation-building exercise in Syrian Kurdistan.
![YPG''s women fighters pose as they stand in a check point with their AK-47 at the outskirts of the destroyed Syrian town of Kobane [Getty]](/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fa188c7c63354d38a4d67269176b8682_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Empowering the Kurdish forces is an important move in the fight against the Islamic State group.
![Western support for the Kurds should be part of a long-term strategy, writes Alaaldin [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/201482712216659734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)