Kurds 'fully control Kirkuk'

BBC News Middle East
12 June 2014

Kurdish fighters outside Kirkuk on Wednesday - PHOTO: REUTERS

Iraqi Kurdish forces say they have taken full control of the northern oil city of Kirkuk as the army flees before an Islamist offensive nearby.

"The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of peshmerga," Kurdish spokesman Jabbar Yawar told Reuters. "No Iraq army remains in Kirkuk now."

Kurdish fighters are seen as a bulwark against Sunni Muslim insurgents.

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