One thing that annoyed me; I've taken all of Iraq except Karbala, which Syria, my ally, controls. They have no troops stationed there, I do. I need this province so I can liberate Iraq, stop using my men as occupiers against these annoying partisans and move onto Israel.
I tried to go into open negotiations and then to provinces, but the option for Karbala is not there. This is weird because I had all of Afghanistan except Feyzabad which China controlled, and the option for that was there and they gave it to me (had to use acceptall though).
This is really lagging me behind, because I have to use my men to keep Iraq under control, which diverts much needed back up for my liberation of Saudi Arabia/invasion of Israel. If I could just have that 1 province and liberate Iraq it'd be so much easier.
Also, liberating Kurdistan gives them 3 provinces which then proceeds to immediately get war declared war on them by Turkey, something I don't need or want. So Kurdistan is not an option, I want Iraq.