Iraq Situation Report: August 18-20, 2015
August 24, 2015 - Institute for the Study of War![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/iraq%20SITREP%202015-8-20%20high_7.png?itok=dC1migMp)
The five major Kurdish political parties - the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the Gorran (Change) Movement, the Kurdistan Islamic Union, and the Kurdistan Islamic Group - failed to resolve the status of the Iraqi Kurdistan presidency before the expiration of President Massoud Barzani’s term on August 20.