A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds a position on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk in an area where Iraqi forces are deployed on October 14, 2017. Marwan Ibrahim / AFP
A Kurdish peshmerga fighter holds a position on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk in an area where Iraqi forces are deployed on October 14, 2017. Marwan Ibrahim / AFP
Kurds, Iraqi forces in standoff in oil-rich Kirkuk
Just before midnight, Iraqi forces used loudhailers to call on the peshmerga fighters to withdraw