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Kurdish leader Barzani resigns after independence vote backfires
By Raya Jalabi, Maher Chmaytelli
ERBIL/BAGHDAD Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani said he would give up his position as president on Nov....
Seizing Kirkuk
by Patrick Cockburn
Elite Iraqi security forces have captured the Kurdish government headquarters buildings in the centre of Kirkuk with the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordering the...