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The Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has been heading for unprecedented political and financial uncertainties as a result of the growing disputes between the two ruling parties and the central government’s moves to erode the KRI’s autonomous status.
Assassins of ex-PUK's Hawkar Jaff sentenced to death. Jaff, formerly a member of the Counter-Terrorism Group (CTG) affiliated PUK
An Erbil court in Iraq on Sunday sentenced six people to death involved in the killing of Hawkar Jaff, a colonel in the counter-terrorism service. A source told Asharq Al-Awsat that, “those sentenced include anti-terrorism chief in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Wahab Halabji and the head of the PUK’s intelligence unit, Karzan Muhammad, in addition to four others.”
Following pressures from a visiting senior US delegation to the Iraqi Kurdistan region, both the main ruling parties have eased nearly six months of political and security tensions.
Deputy Assistant to the US President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett McGurk reaffirmed the ongoing US commitment to advise, enable, and assist Iraqi forces in their fight against the Islamic State militants.