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Iraqi and Kurdish Forces in Heavy Clashes

20/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - The Newsroom, Iraqi and Kurdish Forces in Heavy Clashes

The district is the last area in Kirkuk province still held by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters

The district is the last area in Kirkuk province still held by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

Fierce fighting erupts in the last part of the Kirkuk province held by the Kurdish Peshmerga. Also: Spain plans to force Catalan elections and Playboy's first transgender centrefold.

(Picture: Kurdish forces near Altun Kupri in northern Iraq. Credit: Reuters.)

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