Protests flare in Iraq's Kurdish north, adding new front in national crisis
Protests flare in Iraq’s Kurdish north, adding new front in national crisis Louisa Loveluck, Mustafa Salim © Ako Rasheed/Reuters Kurdish demonstrators face tear gas during a protest over unpaid salaries of public servants by the Iraqi Kurdish regional government in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, on Dec. 11, 2020. SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq —Kurdish authorities in Iraq are struggling to quash wildcat protests as frustration at delayed public-sector payments and decades of mismanagement have boiled over into street violence. The protests highlight the magnitude of the economic and poli...
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