Iraq: Politics, Governance, and Human Rights

Since the 2011 U.S. military withdrawal from Iraq, reemergent sectarian and ethnic divisions have fueled a major challenge to Iraq's stability and to Iraq's non-Muslim minority communities. Many of Iraq's Sunni Arabs are willing to support even radical Sunni Islamist insurgents if doing so will reduce Shiite political domination. Iraq's Kurds have been separately embroiled in political and territorial disputes with Baghdad, particularly the Kurds' intent to separately export large volumes o...