Iraqi Kurdish PUK security force alleges plot to kill party leader

BAGHDAD (Reuters) -A security agency controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday that they had uncovered a plot to assassinate PUK leader Pavel Talabani, sharing a video that purported to show six guards saying they had received an order to kill him.

The video, broadcast by a PUK-affiliated security service in the Kurdistan region, showed the fighters describing plans to rent an apartment in a high-rise building near the…