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Jane Arraf is an international correspondent for NPR. She covers the Middle East. She is a former Middle East correspondent for Al Jazeera English.
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Iraqi Kurds vote for independence Iraqi Kurds turned out in vast numbers yesterday to vote for independence. The current government of the country is braced for trouble -- and it's not just Iraq. Turkey and Iran have their own, restive Kurdish minorities, watching for official results of a referendum denounced as illegitimate by Iraq and its allies, including the United States. But Kurdish forces helped liberate parts of the country from ISIS, and that provided political cover for Kurdish leaders. NPR 's Jane Arraf is in Irbil, the capital of Kurdish Iraq.
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