The president of the Kurdish region of northern Iraq has asked his parliament to prepare for a referendum on independence, potentially paving the way for the break-up of the country of Iraq.
Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal reports from Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government.
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