Kurdistan Defies Iraq's Federal Court Ruling On Oil Resources

Kurdistan and the federal government of Iraq continue their feud over who will oversee oil production in the semi-autonomous Iraqi region, with Kurdistan rejecting this weekend a ruling from Iraq's federal supreme court to hand over control over oil production.   In February, the Supreme Court of the Federal Government of Iraq ruled that sales of oil and gas by Kurdistan, independent of the central government in Baghdad, are unconstitutional and that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) must hand over all oil production to the…