@the.amargi: For more than two decades, Iraqi Kurdish leaders invested in Washington as a place where party divisions could be managed, softened, or kept out of sight. In this investigation, Winthrop Rodgers traces how the Kurdistan Region built its presence in the U.S. capital through lobbyists, law firms, congressional relationships, and carefully managed access. FARA filings reviewed by The Amargi show at least $50 million in Kurdish-linked lobbying over 25 years. That operation helped a non-sovereign region gain attention in Washington. But it is now being strained by the same KDP-PUK rivalry reshaping politics in Erbil and Sulaimani. The result is a Kurdish message that once aimed for unity, now split across competing channels of influence. Watch the full investigation.

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Thursday 14 May 2026 13:09:07 GMT