re: Kurds seize Iraqi Oilfields; Ministers pull out of government.

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What's your take on the situation now

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It's pretty calm honestly. All the fighting has really migrated to the areas around Baghdad. I know the expats in Basra have been evacuated (oil companies), but Kurdistan operations are going fairly normal.

The Kurdish PM has announced an independence referendum in the coming months, but no date has been set. Most of the Kurds are excited about this, but a few think it's purely BS

ISIS and the Kurds are only fighting in the previously disputed areas (such as Kirkuk), but on the previous borders it's been calm as rain as far as I have heard.

Iraq still can't get enough of parliament together to make quarm to elect a new PM as most everyone hates Maliki. The central government has also shutoff twitter, facebook, youtube etc. in the south. Still on in Kurdistan.

It's really turning into a Sunni vs. Shia type deal in Baghdad as well. A lot of the "bad" things the Maliki forces are being overlooked and the few good things ISIS is doing is also being overlooked.