{"id":8220,"date":"2026-02-09T14:48:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/ground_post\/policy-update-iraq-brief-winter-2017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:48:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:48:05","slug":"policy-update-iraq-brief-winter-2017","status":"publish","type":"ground_post","link":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/ground_post\/policy-update-iraq-brief-winter-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Update – Iraq Brief: Winter 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The next year will be a pivotal one in Iraq. The U.S.-led fight against ISIS has yielded significant success. The military battle to defeat ISIS, a group which then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson affirmed was \u201cclearly responsible for genocide,\u201d has come to an end. In September 2017, the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) held its independence referendum, which passed with 92 percent voting in favor. The implications of the referendum for Iraq\u2019s religious minority communities, especially those living under KRG-controlled areas or in the Disputed Internal Boundaries, remain unclear.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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Policy Update – Iraq Brief: Winter 2017 Read the full report here. The next year will be a pivotal one in Iraq. The U.S.-led fight against ISIS has yielded significant success. The military battle to defeat ISIS, a group which then Secretary of State Rex Tillerson affirmed was \u201cclearly responsible for genocide,\u201d has come to an end. In September 2017,…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":99044,"featured_media":8221,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[684,944,513,675],"ground_category":[315,320],"class_list":["post-8220","ground_post","type-ground_post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-iraq","tag-policy","tag-update","tag-winter","ground_category-2-grounds-tribulation","ground_category-2-5-time-martyrdom"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.uscirf.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/webpage\/Screen%20Shot%202017-12-15%20at%209.45.39%20AM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ground_post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99044"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_post\/8220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"ground_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godshand.link\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ground_category?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}