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Hurriyet Daily News
February 28, 2018
Iraq's government has agreed with Kurdish regional authorities to resume Kirkuk oil exports through Turkey's Ceyhan port soon, Prime Minister ... It also introduced a series of measures curtailing the Kurdish region's autonomy, including a ban on direct international travel to the two main Kurdish airports.
Kurdistan24
February 6, 2018
Meanwhile, Ashwaq Jaff, a Kurdish MP in the Iraqi Parliament, told Kurdistan 24 that 21 of the missing Peshmerga fighters have been given life sentences and are held in a prison facility at the al-Muthanna Airport, north of Baghdad. “The Peshmerga fighters were held captive in the IS-controlled areas of Rashad in KirkukÃâà...
Rudaw
February 5, 2018
She has visited the Muthana Airport Prison where she met an ISIS member who had supervised the Peshmerga when they were being held by the terror group. “This Daesh [ISIS] ... A group of Peshmerga was captured by ISIS during the battles for Rashad and Bashir towns in Kirkuk province. They wereÃâà...
Salon
October 23, 2017
Within hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the operation to secure Kirkuk, KDP-loyal Peshmerga were forced to concede the city, ... Turkey did participate in an air embargo of the KRG, which halted all commercial air traffic into and out of the region's two civilian international airports.
The Independent
October 17, 2017
Three weeks after Iraq's Kurdish region held a referendum on independence, Iraqi forces entered the disputed city of Kirkuk, forcing Kurdish fighters to withdraw. Here's what you need to ... By late afternoon, they were in control of several oil and gas facilities, the airport, and a military base. Kurdish officialsÃâà...
FRANCE 24
October 16, 2017
Iraqi forces on Monday took control of a military airport from Kurdish fighters near the disputed city of Kirkuk, following tensions over a controversial independence referendum, the military has said. The move came as Iraqi forces also captured an oil field and the main military base in the region afterÃâà...
TRT World
September 27, 2017
The KRG's forces took control of Kirkuk, a multi-ethnic region, when the Iraqi army fled in the face of a surge by Daesh militants, who overran about a third of ... "Iraq will suspend all international flights to and from the Kurdistan region's airports of Sulaymaniyah and Erbil if these airports will not be returned toÃâà...
