Spreading corruption threatens to undermine the significant progress Iraq has made toward reducing violence and strengthening state institutions.
Iraq’s new coalition government and the Kurdistan regional government in Erbil must start talks on disputed internal boundaries or risk an outbreak of violent conflict along a “trigger” line dividing army troops and Kurdish regional guard forces, the peshmergas.
The main threat to Iraq’s political order today emanates not from an organised insurgency but from within the political system itself.
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