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General Category => World News => Topic started by: endicom on October 16, 2017, 01:45:57 pm
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Hot Air
Ed Morrissey
Oct. 16, 2017
The civil war in Iraq over the last three years touched off by ISIS may just have been an appetizer. Late yesterday, the Iraqi army attacked Peshmerga forces around Kirkuk in an attempt to wrest control of the city and its oil production away from the independence-minded Kurds. The Shi’ite-dominated government in Baghdad has thus far only used the army for this operation, but Shi’ite militias with ties to Iran wait on the sidelines — and that may be one reason why the Kurds are balking at federal control:
More... https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/16/peshmerga-iraq-declared-war-kurds/
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We may be seeing why we didn't topple Hussein in the first war.
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I thought I saw one story on the Kurds that said a fair number of their soldiers got killed, 8, 12, something like that. But other stories are not stating such. I saw one story of a shootout at a roadblock but nobody got killed.
Between Turkey, ISIS and now, fighting the Iraqi Government (if this is indeed happening), they've certainly lost many soldiers.
Iraq Aims to Retake Kirkuk; Kurds Cite ‘Lots of Casualties’
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iraq-launches-operation-impose-security-kirkuk-kurds-cite-lots-casualties-n810956
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I thought I saw one story on the Kurds that said a fair number of their soldiers got killed, 8, 12, something like that. But other stories are not stating such. I saw one story of a shootout at a roadblock but nobody got killed.
Between Turkey, ISIS and now, fighting the Iraqi Government (if this is indeed happening), they've certainly lost many soldiers.
Iraq Aims to Retake Kirkuk; Kurds Cite ‘Lots of Casualties’
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/iraq-launches-operation-impose-security-kirkuk-kurds-cite-lots-casualties-n810956
Peshmerga may be the most decent group over there. I'd like to see them keep Kirkuk and so might the people of Kirkuk.