Over 92% of Iraq's Kurds vote for independence

Referendum results in overwhelming endorsement of split from Baghdad, after troops are sent into disputed areas

More than 92% of voters in Iraqi Kurdistan have opted for independence, according to election monitors, in an overwhelming endorsement of a proposed split from Baghdad.

The result came after Iraq’s parliament authorised the prime minister, Haidar al-Abadi, to send troops into areas disputed between Arabs and Kurds that were contentiously included in the ballot.

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