Kurdish independence vote damages U.S. efforts to preserve unified Iraq

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A vote by Iraq's minority Kurds for independence is a blow to the United States, which has spent years, billions of dollars and the lives of thousands of troops trying to hold Iraq together, former U.S. officials and other policy experts said.

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