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Baghdad’s forces back in Kirkuk after three years

IRAQI government forces re-entered Kirkuk yesterday for the first time since 2014.

Peshmerga troops of the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) withdrew from the disputed city beforehand, with the KRG claims as part of its territory.

That withdrawal appeared to have avoided bloody clashes between the two sides, which had previously worked together to confront the Isis death cult which swept through northern Iraq three years ago.

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