The group is known to operate in the Kirkuk area and other parts of the north, but its claim could not be independently verified. |
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The 173d Airborne Brigade escorted Air Force fuel from Mosul to Kirkuk until the task was taken over by the 101st Corps Support Group. |
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We crossed the ridge at Chamchamal where a few days ago Iraqi troops peeled back towards Kirkuk. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Muhammad and Tahseen had helped me explore the back roads and smugglers' routes in the no-man's-land surrounding government-controlled Kirkuk. |
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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. |
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Already, we've heard reports that Kurds have begun driving Arabs out of villages around Kirkuk, reclaiming their old lands. |
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We had decided to get an early start and headed out to Kirkuk and then to Tikrit. |
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So far the Kurdish areas have been relatively quiet, with the exception of Kirkuk. |
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We sped through the desert past miles of abandoned Iraqi military positions and deserting Iraqi soldiers on our way to Kirkuk. |
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Residents of Kirkuk are divided in roughly equal parts among three ethnic groups, Arabs, Turkmen, and Kurds. |
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When KRG forces seized the oil-rich city of Kirkuk last week, there were hardly any protests from Ankara. |
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Miraculously, and thanks to three hundred Marines and cobra attack helicopters, the convoy made it to Kirkuk. |
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Talabani told The Daily Beast that the Peshmerga deployment to Kirkuk was actually approved by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. |
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Among the challenges is how to deal with the Arab-Kurd fault line and the disputed oil-rich city of Kirkuk. |
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At the time, the Kurdish Peshmerga did take up positions in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, where they remain to this day. |
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Locals also know that ISIS needs more fighters in places like Tikrit, Anbar, Diyala and toward Kirkuk. |
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Amidst the rampage, Iraqi officers and soldiers abandoned critical outposts in and around the Kurdish majority city of Kirkuk. |
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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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Yesterday an explosion ripped open an oil pipeline north west of Kirkuk. |
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Turkish leaders object to any Kurdish grab of Kirkuk, in the country's second biggest oil region and considered by Iraqi Kurds as part of their heartland. |
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Near Kirkuk, two airstrikes destroyed an ISIL tank, an ISIL Humvee and an ISIL vehicle, as well as struck two ISIL units, the statement said. |
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In January 2005 Shell won a contract to assist Explorational Consultants Ltd of the UK on an integrated reservoir study for the Kirkuk axis. |
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With their objectives completed 3rd Battalion and their Peshmerga returned to the green line to assist the push on Kirkuk and Mosul. |
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So far in December, Kirkuk shipments have averaged about 270,000 bpd, industry sources said, about 30,000 bpd less than in November. |
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The sources said that the French warplanes used laser-guided rockets in its operation, which is the second operation French warplane in Kirkuk. |
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The source confirmed that the intense bombardment led to parallelize the IS movement and prevent any progress towards the city of Kirkuk. |
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The oil of Kirkuk could make an independent Kurdistan economically viable. |
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Other operations occurred against pockets of the Iraqi army, including the capture and occupation of Kirkuk on 10 April, and the attack and capture of Tikrit on 15 April. |
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What is more, the traditionally Turcoman cities of Mosul and especially Kirkuk are now becoming Kurdish cities and Turcomans have been eliminated in one way or another. |
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The 173rd Brigade would eventually take responsibility for Kirkuk days later, becoming involved in the counterinsurgency fight and remain there until redeploying a year later. |
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