BBCNEWS Outside Source October 16, 2017
Between Government Forces and iraqi kurds has escalated and already the government has seized territory. Theyve worked together to fight the Islamic State group but theyre not on the same side now. Is briefly held kirkuk in 2014 but was driven out by kurdish fighters known as peshmerga. The kurds kept control of it. The citys in a region claimed by both iraqi kurds and the Iraqi Government. But lets be clear its outside the autonomous kurdish region in the north of iraq. The reason baghdad is sending in troops now is that three weeks weeks ago Iraqi Kurdistan region held an independence refere...