The Washington Think Tank for Middle East Policy believes that the Kurdistan Region of Iraq was once one of the bases for America's Middle East policy, but now it has been reduced to a part of Iraq's issues.
The United States’ support for separatist tendencies in northeastern Syria may make the Kurdish problem topical not only for Syria but for other countries of the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday after talks with visiting Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States within the Holy See's Secretariat of State.