FILE PHOTO: Kurdish Regional Government President Masoud Barzani speaks to the media during his visits in the town of Bashiqa, after it was recaptured from the Islamic State, east of Mosul, Iraq, November 16, 2016. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - The president of Iraq's autonomous region of Kurdistan has called a parliamentary and presidential election for November which could help ease a long-running political row as the Kurds push for independence from Baghdad.
The elections will follow an independence referendum set for Sept. 25, a move that will strain Iraq's frayed federal unity and annoy neighbours Syria, Turkey and Iran, who also have sizable Kurdish populations.
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