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US-Peshmerga agreement set to expire amid Coalition withdrawal 

“The US Government's financial support to the Kurdistan Regional Government for the unification of the Peshmerga forces was always intended to be temporary.  It was intended to help the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs integrate and unify the different units, and if the US Government is now ending the payment of stipends to those forces, that is almost certainly because it judges the unification effort to be complete,” Ambassador Joey Hood, the former US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, told The New Region.

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