Battle of Kirkuk

Name: Battle of Kirkuk
Start: 2017-10-15
End: 2017-10-20

15 Oct 2017 – 20 Oct 2017 · 35.47° N, 44.40° E

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When: 15 Oct 2017 – 20 Oct 2017
Kind: Battle
Coordinates: 35.47° N, 44.40° E
Description: 2017 battle in War in Iraq (2013–2017)

Battle of Kirkuk (2017)

Battle between Kurds and government forces in Iraq

The Battle of Kirkuk, codenamed Operation Enforcing Security of the 2017 Iraqi–Kurdish conflict, was a military deployment by the Iraqi Security Forces to retake Kirkuk Governorate from the Peshmerga after the latter ignored repeated warnings to withdraw, sparking clashes between the two forces.

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Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “bataille de Kirkouk, la ville est reprise aux peshmergas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page
Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “عملية كركوك 2017: القوات العراقية تتمكن من استعادة السيطرة على كركوك ومناطق أخرى متنازع عليها بعد انسحاب قوات البيشمركة التابعة لاقليم كردستان منها”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Source page

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