IRAQI authorities reasserted control yesterday of all areas seized by the Kurdistan regional government (KRG) in 2014.

Troops reoccupied the remaining areas of Nineveh, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din and Diyala provinces after peshmerga forces retreated.

The KRG took over the oil-rich regions in 2014 during the Isis conquest of much of the north, including the city of Mosul.