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Years of Kurdish-Iraqi alliance within Baghdad's government is at risk of deterioration due to multiple concerns, including oil, disputed territories and the Kurdish referendum.
Analysis: Despite warming relations between Ankara and Erbil, Turkey is alarmed at the idea of Kurdish 'expansion' northern Iraq, writes Paul Iddon
Analysis: A confrontation between Turkey and Kurdish fighters could affect the operation to retake Raqqa from the Islamic State group, writes Paul Iddon.
Tensions rise as the US, Kurdish forces, Turkey and the Syrian regime eye the imminent battle to capture the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold.
Analysis: Ankara wants its forces to be the ones to vanquish the Islamic State group from Raqqa, to stop Kurdish groups from laying claim to the city, writes Paul Iddon.
Analysis: Keeping Syrian refugees out of Turkey in an area controlled by Ankara's troops would also result in preventing Kurdish forces from linking up along the length of the border.
Analysis: Control of towns in Iraq and Syria is likely to be handed over from armed Kurdish groups to local affiliated franchises in exchange for their withdrawal, writes Paul Iddon.
In-depth: Russia is betting on Turkey to convince rebels to agree to its 'ceasefire', while Ankara wants to dispel Kurdish aspirations of a state in Syria, writes Paul Iddon.
Turkey witnessed at least 30 attacks in 2016, with scores killed in bombings and shootings by Islamic State group and Kurdish militants.
Kurdish forces are using their fight against Islamic State in Iraq to unlawfully destroy Arab homes in disputed areas of Kirkuk and Ninevah, a Human Rights Watch report has revealed.