This large scale map shows the parts of Turkey, Iraq and Iran with very large Kurdish populations, with a smaller number in Syria. It also shows clearly the vulnerabilities that Israels enemies face from the Ex-American air bases in the Abril - Kirkuk area.

The New Kurdistan - Iraq..........................

If you can't watch all of this video then just watch the first three minutes if you would like to understand the deep hatred that the Kurds have for the Iraqis, in particular the Sunni's, who live below Mosul.

Underground resources

KRG-controlled parts of Iraqi Kurdistan are estimated to contain around 45 billion barrels of oil, making it the sixth largest reserve in the world. Extraction of these reserves began in 2007. Iraq's former Baath regime controls the resources of Kirkuk and Mosul, cities claimed by the KRG to be included in its territory.

As of July 2007, the Kurdish government solicited foreign companies to invest in 40 new oil sites, with the hope of increasing regional oil production over the following 5 years by a factor of five, to about 1 million barrels per day (160,000 m3/d).[47] Gas and associated gas reserves are in excess of 100 TCF.

Other underground resources that exist in significant quantities in the region include coal, copper, gold, iron, limestone (which is used to produce cement), marble, and zinc. The world's largest deposit of rock sulfur is located just southwest of Erbil (Hewlêr).[48]
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Many Christians believe that these passages refer to a future biblical event, and that this will be it, however it comes about. The Kurds intend to control the rich oilfields of the violently dismembered former Iraq, the Turks won’t get any.

Isa 13:17 ¶ Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and [as for] gold, they shall not delight in it.

Isa 13:18 [Their] bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb; their eye shall not spare children.

Isa 13:19 And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah