from alarabiya.....
"A bitter dispute over the fate of a military base in the contested Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk is providing an early glimpse of potential conflict following the final pullout of U.S. troops this year.
Iraqi civilian and military officials on Thursday held a handover ceremony for the Hurriyah base, which includes the airport in Kirkuk, the capital of the ethnically mixed, oil-rich province of the same name, which the autonomous Kurdistan region wants to incorporate against Baghdad’s wishes.
The U.S. military said that as far as it is concerned, the base was not officially turned over to Iraq".......READ MORE
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