Intel: Unpaid salaries fuel protests in Iraqi Kurdistan - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Joe Snell

Joe Snell

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Iraqi Kurds take part in a mass demonstration in the city of Sulaymaniyah to demand payment of their salaries and an end to corruption, on September 27, 2016. / AFP / SHWAN MOHAMMED (Photo credit should read SHWAN MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images) — Iraqi Kurds take part in a mass demonstration in the city of Sulaimaniyah to demand payment of their salaries and an end to corruption, Iraqi Kurdistan, Sept. 27, 2016. — SHWAN MOHAMMED/AFP via Getty Images

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An Iraqi Kurdish music teacher gives a music lesson at a summer school in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on June 17, 2014. The Kurdish region has been receiving displaced Iraqis fleeing nearby areas in northern Iraq taken over by militants, lead by jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in a swift offensive in which they have said they intend to advance on Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/SAFIN HAMED (Photo credit should read SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty

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