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April 28, 2014

Iraqis in Jordan go to the polls, hoping for stability at home

An Iraqi woman living in Jordan casts her ballot at a polling station in a government school in Amman April 27. Iraqi Catholic refugees, along with their exiled countrymen, are voting in the first parliamentary polls since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. tro ops from their nation.

AMMAN, Jordan - A steady stream of Iraqi refugees, smiling and displaying purple index fingers, emerged from a polling station in the Hashemi Shamali district, where the majority of these urban refugees live in the Jordanian capital.

Published in International