Reuters: Peshmerga prevents Iraqi forces from entering oil fields in Kirkuk
2017-10-15 at 18:45 (Baghdad time)
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A Kurdish security official said on Sunday that the Peshmerga fighters had rejected an ultimatum from Iraqi armed factions to withdraw from a strategic intersection south of the city of Kirkuk that controls access to some of the region's major oil fields.
Reuters quoted an official of the Security Council of the KurdistanRegional Government (KRG) as saying that the PFLP forces had given the Peshmerga fighters until midnight local time on Saturday to withdraw from a position north of the intersection of Khalid's office.
He added that the location of the Peshmerga Kurdish forces located north of the intersection, which reaches an important air base and the field of Bay Hassan oil, one of the main fields in the Kurdistan region.
For his part, spokesman for the Popular Forces, Ali al-Husseini, that the deadline passed without giving any indication of their next step, "We are waiting for new orders is not expected to get an extension," There were no reports of clashes in the period following the expiration of the deadline, A resident.
The Kurdish authorities announced last Friday, they sent thousands of additional troops to Kirkuk to meet the "Iraqi threats," while Prime Minister Haider Abadi, repeatedly denied any plans to attack the Kurds.
It is worth mentioning that the popular mobilization forces spread south and west of Kirkuk along with the Iraqi army, and the Kurds control the city and air base and surrounding areas, including oil fields.
Kirkuk, home to more than a million people, is located outside the Kurdistan region but the Peshmerga forces have been stationed there since 2014 after the collapse of Iraqi forces in the face of an attack by an oppressive organization, where the spread of Peshmerga prevented the fall of Kirkuk oil fields in the hands of terrorists.
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