… Kurdish Democratic Party) and Jalal Talabani of the PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan … State (IS) group captured Mosul, capital of the Ninawa … hardship under the dictator Saddam [Hussein].

But now we … Erbil and Baghdad

The capital of Iraqi Kurdistan is a Barzani …

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