Men waited to vote outside a polling station in Sulaimaniya, Iraq.Joseph Sywenkyj for The New York Times
Kurdistan: Why It Could Spark New Front In Iraq War -- Christian Science Monitor
The region, which has increasingly been at odds with Baghdad, holds elections Saturday for a new regional government.
Mosul, Iraq - Iraqi Kurdistan is wrapping up an unusually free-wheeling election campaign that is likely to shift, if not overturn, the political order of this semi-autonomous region when the votes are cast on Saturday.
But amid the calls for change and allegations of nepotism and corruption, Kurdistan's politicians do agree on one issue: The desire for the region's borders to be extended into the oil-rich area around Kirkuk – an issue that was supposed to be put to a referendum in December 2007, but was delayed by an ethnic-Arab faction in the Iraqi parliament.
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