Soldiers and the sick cast early votes Thursday ahead of weekend elections that will determine the leadership of Iraq's Kurdish region, which is locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with the central government over oil-rich land.
A coalition of (...)
Two Iraqi Kurdish politicians say Iraq's President Jalal Talabani has undergone heart surgery in a US hospital.
The two senior officials from Talabani's party say the eight-hour surgery took place at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, on (...)
