Tuesday’s agreement is testament to the new national unity forged under Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. Reuters The Iraq government has agreed on an oil export deal with the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, according to Iraqi state television and a Kurdish lawmaker, potentially ending a years-long political impasse that has divided the country. Under the new agreement, which comes into effect on Jan. 1, Kurdistan will export 250,000 barrels of oil a day while the disputed province of Kirkuk will sell 300,000 barrels a day, said Abdel Qadr Mohammed, a Kurdish member of the Iraqi parliament’s finance committee, who participated in the negotiations. Both regions would export through Iraq’s national oil company, the State Organization for Marketing of Oil, or SOMO. It marks a victory for Iraq’s central government which has long sought […]