Iraqi Kurdistan’s oil minister said Tuesday that the Kurds’ fight against Islamic State militants risks being undermined by delays in oil payments from Baghdad for Kurdish crude. But an official from the Iraqi central government said Baghdad disagreed with the Kurds’ estimates of payments due. Baghdad and Kurdistan reached an agreement in December 2014 , allowing the Kurds to export 550,000 barrels of oil a day under the central government’s supervision in exchange for receiving 17% of the national budget. “The fight against ISIS across several thousand kilometers of front line cannot happen if you don’t have the economic means to do it,” Ashti Hawrami, the minister for natural resources of the Kurdistan Regional Government, told a conference here. “When we have three months of peshmergas [Kurdish fighters] not being paid, it’s very difficult to see how this can be sustained,” he added. While Islamic State has continued making […]