Catalan lawmakers voted on Friday to declare independence from Spain but Madrid moved swiftly to quash the breakaway bid in a sharp escalation of a crisis causing jitters in secession-wary Europe. As thousands of pro-independence activists cheered outside, the regional parliament ...
Southern Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) is an autonomous region possessing its legal government, parliament, and president. Although and regrettably, it is yet to secede from Iraq and declare its independence in which is what does not afford the region exercise its ...