The deputy speaker within the Iraqi Kurdish parliament has announced the resignation of the region's president

Massoud Barzani is to step down on November first following an independence referendum which he championed but which has backfired and triggered a regional crisis.

In a bitter televised address Barzanni defended the independence vote.

"The Peshmerga played a major role in the fight of the Mosul operation. And without the Peshmerga, the Iraqi army would never have been able to liber…
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