Barzani wins Iraqi Kurd vote Iraq's Kurds have voted Masoud Barzani, the incumbent president of Iraq's semi-autonomous north, back into power.
The Kurdish regional administration's aggressive strategy for exploiting their own oil and gas fields has led them into conflict with the Iraqi oil ministry.
The Kurds have asserted their right to the oil-producing Kirkuk region and other disputed areas lying outside the current borders of their enclave.
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The Kurdish regional administration's aggressive strategy for exploiting their own oil and gas fields has led them into conflict with the Iraqi oil ministry.
The Kurds have asserted their right to the oil-producing Kirkuk region and other disputed areas lying outside the current borders of their enclave.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/mi...152629898.html