High Tensions between Pro-government Turkmen Forces and Kurdish Peshmerga Fighters

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Tuz Kharmatu area, tonight,  witnesses Intense fighting between pro-government Turkmen forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters .

According to local reports, a series of clashes in northern Iraq tonight happened as the Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd Al-Sha’abi) attacked the Peshmerga positions inside Tuz Kharmatu.

Tensions between Turkmen and Kurdish residents of Tuz Kharmatu have been high after the recent Iraqi Kurdistan independence referendum, which saw the latter emancipate itself from Baghdad.

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