Intel: Unpaid salaries fuel protests in Iraqi Kurdistan
Ongoing budget disputes with Baghdad have fueled salary delays and a lack of business bailouts in the Kurdistan Region as KRG debt swells to $27 billion.
![610639188 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)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2020/08/GettyImages-610639188.jpg/GettyImages-610639188.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=jMeUYes2)
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