Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd al-Mahdi and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani ignored a request to sign key pleadings in a landmark court case – a sign that neither side is eager to have Iraq’s highest court adjudicate their long-standing oil disputes. “In order to enable the other parties, the federal prime minister and the prime minister of the KRG to sign their pleading – with their actual signatures, as requested by the court – we are deciding to postpone this court session,” said Chief Justice Medhat al-Mahmoud in […]