A member of the Kurdish Peshmerga battalions shows his ink-stained finger after voting at a polling station in the northern Kurdish city of Sulaimaniyah on September 19, 2013, in the region’s legislative elections. Iraq’s Kurdistan, a three-province autonomous region, goes to the polls on September 21, grappling with a swathe of disputes with the central government while fellow Kurds fight bloody battles across the border in Syria. AFP PHOTO/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE