TY  - BOOK
AU  - BINNIE Jeremy
TI  - Peshmerga looks weak after loss of Kirkuk
PY  - 2017///
KW  - IRAQ
KW  - MIDDLE EAST
KW  - ISLAMIC STATE
N2  - Peshmerga (military forces of the federal region of Iraqi Kurdistan) personnel fled Kirkuk even though its commanders said the city would be defended. The multi-ethnic northern city of Kirkuk has been held by Peshmerga since June 2014, when government forces collapsed in northern Iraq in the face of an offensive by Islamic State militants. The retreat has been blamed on a secret deal under which some Peshmerga units surrendered their positions
ER  -