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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Iraqi Kurds postpone polls in face of crisis
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIraq’s autonomous Kurdish region is postponing presidential and legislative elections because of the current crisis with Baghdad, its electoral commission says.
The region’s Independent High Electoral Commission says it has “decided to suspend temporarily preparations for the elections set for November 1 because of the current situation.”
Iraqi government forces said earlier that they had retaken from Kurdish fighters almost all the areas disputed between Baghdad and the autonomous Kurdistan region in response to a September independence vote.
— AFP
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