Iraqi army restores K1 airbase in Kirkuk from Peshmerga

CAIRO – 16 October 2017: Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service forces were deployed intensively in the K1 airbase in Kirkuk province, the military media committee of the Iraqi army said on Monday.

The Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service, police forces and the army’s ninth brigade regained control of a vast territory in Kirkuk including the oil well, Baba Gurgur, without clashing with the Peshmerga forces located in Kirkuk.

The multi-ethnic city of Kirkuk, home to one of Iraq's largest oil fields, was taken over by Kurdish Peshmerga forces in July 2014 after Iraqi government troops left the city ahead of a possible attack by radical Islamic State insurgents who have already seized two major Iraqi cities.