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How to use Kirkuk in a sentence

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The group is known to operate in the Kirkuk area and other parts of the north, but its claim could not be independently verified.
The 173d Airborne Brigade escorted Air Force fuel from Mosul to Kirkuk until the task was taken over by the 101st Corps Support Group.
We crossed the ridge at Chamchamal where a few days ago Iraqi troops peeled back towards Kirkuk.
The first gusher of the Kirkuk oilfield was not struck till 1926, after the League of Nations had finally awarded the area to Iraq, not Turkey.
The Americans know it too and largely for this reason, leaned on the Kurds to stay their hand and stand down on Kirkuk, for the moment at least.
Muhammad and Tahseen had helped me explore the back roads and smugglers' routes in the no-man's-land surrounding government-controlled Kirkuk.
They also got paid to rebury their relatives in Kirkuk to make it appear that the Arab presence had been a long one, the committee said.
Already, we've heard reports that Kurds have begun driving Arabs out of villages around Kirkuk, reclaiming their old lands.
We had decided to get an early start and headed out to Kirkuk and then to Tikrit.
So far the Kurdish areas have been relatively quiet, with the exception of Kirkuk.
We sped through the desert past miles of abandoned Iraqi military positions and deserting Iraqi soldiers on our way to Kirkuk.
Residents of Kirkuk are divided in roughly equal parts among three ethnic groups, Arabs, Turkmen, and Kurds.
When KRG forces seized the oil-rich city of Kirkuk last week, there were hardly any protests from Ankara.
Miraculously, and thanks to three hundred Marines and cobra attack helicopters, the convoy made it to Kirkuk.
Talabani told The Daily Beast that the Peshmerga deployment to Kirkuk was actually approved by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Among the challenges is how to deal with the Arab-Kurd fault line and the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
At the time, the Kurdish Peshmerga did take up positions in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, where they remain to this day.
Locals also know that ISIS needs more fighters in places like Tikrit, Anbar, Diyala and toward Kirkuk.
Amidst the rampage, Iraqi officers and soldiers abandoned critical outposts in and around the Kurdish majority city of Kirkuk.
The charity said most areas were inaccessible to aid organisations and there was evidence of a humanitarian crisis in Umm Qasr in the south and Kirkuk in the north.
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At length we got round to the road, and started to advance down it to Kirkuk.
Once we had reached the far side we set out to pick our way round Kirkuk to get astride the road leading thence to Altun Kupri.
It provides an easy passage practicable in the depth of winter, from Armenia to Kirkuk and Baghdad.
The site came to be known as the first site to be drilled in the Mesopotamian region, even before the Kirkuk site.
A large-scale campaign has been inauguarted by Iraqi military forces, aiming al-Qaeda and affiliated groups in south-western Kirkuk.
It was rumored that we would continue to push on and would attack Kirkuk.
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