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Iraq’s federal government has held the Kurdistan Regional Government legally accountable for continued oil smuggling, warning of further legal action and condemning recent unauthorized energy ...

An Iraqi official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly said the government had tracked 240 cases of illegal border crossings from Iraq’s Kurdish ...

Iraq's oil ministry said on Thursday it holds the Kurdish regional government (KRG) legally responsible for the continued smuggling of oil from the Kurdish region outside the country.

Tensions have escalated between Iraq's central government in Baghdad and the semiautonomous Kurdish region in the country's north in a long-running dispute over the the sharing of oil revenues.