Erbil, Iraq, Nov 4, 2026 (AFP) - Iraqi Kurdistan selects parliament speaker after two-year deadlock

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2026-11-04

The parliament in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region elected a speaker on Wednesday, more than two years after elections were held, with the chamber still riven by party divisions. Politics in the region of northern Iraq has for decades been gripped by a power struggle between two major parties and the families behind them, with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Barzanis on one side, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and the T......

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