ANKARA Iraqi troops deployed on Oct. 31 at one of the main land crossings with Turkey, gaining a foothold at the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government ( KRG )-held frontier for the first time in decades and imposing one of Baghdad’s central demands on the autonomous region. Iraq ’s entire land border with Turkey has been controlled by the KRG since before the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003. But since the KRG staged a referendum on independence on Sept. 25, it has found itself increasingly

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