Iraqi Government Accuses Kurdish Forces Of Declaration Of War.
Foreign Kurdish forces were present in the province of Kirkuk in what amounted to a “declaration of war,” dramatically raising the stakes in its dispute with Iraq’s Kurds, Iraqi officials said. on Sunday.
Kurdish officials denied Baghdad’s claim that forces from Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were among its peshmerga fighters in an armed standoff with Iraqi troops in the oil-rich province.
General Jabar Yawer, chief of the peshmerga ministry, said there are no PKK forces in Kirkuk, but there are some volunteers who sympathize with the PKK,” he said.
Tensions have soared in the wake of the vote, with the crisis raising fears of fresh chaos just as the country’s forces are on the verge of routing Daesh militants from the last territory it controls in Iraq.
Forces ready to attack in Taza Khormatu, South of Kirkuk, tanks, armored vehicles and artillery
deploying.
Image / AFP.
Iraq’s foreign ministry said on a statement, Iran closed its border crossings with Iraqi Kurdistan at Baghdad’s request. A local Kurdish official confirmed the crossings were closed, though Tehran earlier denied the move had been taken. on Sunday.
The Kurds and Ankara and Tehran since the independence vote, which both countries fear will stoke the separatist ambitions of their own sizeable Kurdish minorities.
Foreign Kurdish forces were present in the province of Kirkuk in what amounted to a “declaration of war,” dramatically raising the stakes in its dispute with Iraq’s Kurds, Iraqi officials said. on Sunday.
Kurdish officials denied Baghdad’s claim that forces from Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) were among its peshmerga fighters in an armed standoff with Iraqi troops in the oil-rich province.
General Jabar Yawer, chief of the peshmerga ministry, said there are no PKK forces in Kirkuk, but there are some volunteers who sympathize with the PKK,” he said.
Tensions have soared in the wake of the vote, with the crisis raising fears of fresh chaos just as the country’s forces are on the verge of routing Daesh militants from the last territory it controls in Iraq.
Forces ready to attack in Taza Khormatu, South of Kirkuk, tanks, armored vehicles and artillery
deploying.
Iraq’s foreign ministry said on a statement, Iran closed its border crossings with Iraqi Kurdistan at Baghdad’s request. A local Kurdish official confirmed the crossings were closed, though Tehran earlier denied the move had been taken. on Sunday.
The Kurds and Ankara and Tehran since the independence vote, which both countries fear will stoke the separatist ambitions of their own sizeable Kurdish minorities.
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