Iraq resumes Kurdish oil exports after two-year haltby AFP Staff WritersArbil, Iraq (AFP) Sept 27, 2025Iraq resumed crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region on Saturday after a more than two-year halt over legal and technical disputes. Iraq's oil ministry announced the "resumption of oil exports from the Kurdistan Region through the Iraq-Turkey pipeline", ending the long-standing hiatus in the energy-rich region. But the region's official oil exports have been frozen since March 2023, when the arbitration tribunal of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris ruled oil exports by the regional government were illegal and said Baghdad had the exclusive right to market all Iraqi oil. On Thursday, the federal and Kurdish authorities reached another deal with international oil companies operating in the autonomous region to resume crude exports. On Wednesday, eight international oil companies operating in Kurdistan said they agreed to resume exports via the Iraq-Turkey pipeline.