New: Befal Talabani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish party 'PUK', announces his intention to secede from the current Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region and create 'Kurdistan 2.0' which includes the cities of Sulaimaniyah and Halbaja. Talabani announced that his party would withdraw from what he called the 'failed government' in Erbil with immediate effect, and vowed to create a parallel government and institutions. The announcement probably marks the first time in history that a non-existent country splits and creates a second non-existent country.

New: Befal Talabani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish party 'PUK', announces his intention to secede from the current Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region and create 'Kurdistan 2.0' which includes the cities of Sulaimaniyah and Halbaja. Talabani announced that his party would withdraw from what he called the 'failed government' in Erbil with immediate effect, and vowed to create a parallel government and institutions. The announcement probably marks the first time in history that a non-existent country splits and creates a second non-existent country.