The Kurds voted for independence in the fall of 2017 ― a move that if respected and institutionalized by Baghdad, would let the KRG officially control its own oil sales and revenue.
Today, in the age of officially controlled ultra-capitalism, it is no stranger to fey and fanciful English-style architecture.
The Kurdish government, which officially controls three provinces, also claims cities and towns in three more just over the regional border.
Hamas had a parliamentary majority but Fatah, through the presidency of Mahmoud Abbas, still officially controlled the security apparatuses and ministries.
Although the force is officially controlled by the Iraqi government, popular perception in Baghdad is that the ISOF... is a covert, all-Iraqi branch of the US military.
About a month into the protests the officially controlled Russian media turned on the Bakiyev regime, denouncing its nepotism and corruption.
Each major communist country had its own national news service, and each news service was officially controlled, usually by the minister of information.
China officially controls the content of everything printed in its territory, but several publishers of illustrated books could not recall any other books blocked for political or religious reasons.
In exchange for allowances from the Mob-controlled construction unions, Trump is supposed to have overpaid for concrete from a company that Fat Tony partly owned and officially controlled.
In 1934, only two years after the stories in "Red Cavalry" were collected and published in a single volume, Babel announced at an officially controlled writers' conference that from then on he would practice a new literary genre.
South African security forces said today that they had shot and killed two armed black insurgents, one of whom was described by the officially controlled news organizations as the country's leading terrorist.
