Iraq heads to the polls to vote for powerful provincial councils
The first council elections in a decade are expected to strengthen the grip of pro-Iran groups.
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The first council elections in a decade are expected to strengthen the grip of pro-Iran groups.
The council elections are expected to strengthen pro-Iran Shiite Muslim groups as their main rival, populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, boycotts the vote.
Iraqis voted Monday in the first provincial council elections in a decade, which are expected to strengthen powerful Shiite pro-Iran groups
Baghdad’s streets are nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s first provincial elections in a decade.
Local elections Iraq last took place in 2013. They were postponed because of the war against Islamic State militants who took over large parts of Iraq but were eventually defeated.