Kurdistan: Exclusive: Iraqi Kurds Sell Third Major Oil Cargo, Fourth Heads to Croatia

Aug 15, 2014 | Julia Payne and David Sheppard, Reuters
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(Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan has delivered its third major cargo of crude oil out of a Turkish port and a fourth is sailing to Croatia, showing the autonomous region is finding more buyers despite legal pressure from Baghdad and setbacks in the United States.

The Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), whose peshmerga forces are being supported by U.S. airstrikes in their battle against the radical Sunni militants of Islamic State, has been in a long constitutional fight with Baghdad over independent oil sales.