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Analysis: The Popular Mobilisation Forces and Kurdish leaders said they did not want to see violence, writes Adam Lucente.
In-depth: The standoff between Baghdad and Erbil following the Kurdish vote in favour of independence in September is triggering an 'arms race' in the ethnically mixed disputed city of Kirkuk
Analysis: The veteran Kurdish statesman may yet, even in death, bring together feuding Iraqi and regional politicians and help solve an international crisis, writes Paul Iddon.
Analysis: Having fought a Kurdish insurgency for 40 years, Erdogan's threats are understandable, but they conflate two different situations for Kurds in Iraq and in Syria, writes Paul Iddon.
Tensions in Kirkuk have risen in recent weeks as the rhetoric between the Kurdish leadership and Iraq's central government escalates.
Analysis: Kurdish leaders fear losing political leverage once Peshmerga fighters are no longer desperately needed in the fight against the Islamic State group, reports Paul Iddon.
Analysis: US support for Kurdish groups in Syria is beginning to undermine a 70-year alliance, notes Paul Iddon.
Analysis: Turkey may try to compensate for its failure to crush its Syrian Kurdish opponents by bombarding Afrin canton, their smallest, most isolated and vulnerable enclave, notes Paul Iddon.
Analysis: With growing disillusionment, Kurdish eyes are turning to an independence referendum, notes Paul Iddon.
Analysis: Turkish officials have detailed a long-held ambition to reclaim parts of the former Ottoman empire - though relations with Iraqi Kurdish authorities have warmed significantly since, writes Paul Iddon.