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Baghdad looks to Kurds to stem jihadist encroachment

June 11, 2024 by Lara Vergnaud in Middle East.

A rebel fighter guards a street to prevent members of the al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant from entering Jabal al-Zawiya in Idlib

But longstanding tensions between Kurdistan and the Iraqi central government may yet hinder security cooperation.