The war has cost the Kurdistan Regional Government $1 billion to date.
Estimated expenses of $1 million per day include purchasing arms, bullets and ammunition, fuel, and medicine, digging trenches and constructing outposts, as well as providing other necessities such as food.
The sum of $18 million has been spent on medical care for wounded Peshmerga. And $7.2 million has gone to the families of Peshmerga who have lost their lives.
Despite the expenditures, the KRG budget has been withheld by Baghdad since 2014 and a slump in oil prices also hit the region’s finances.
