At least 10 Kurdish fighters were killed and 27 wounded during fighting overnight with Iraqi pro-government paramilitary forces in disputed Kirkuk province, a Kurdish official says.
Sherzad Hassan, deputy director of health in the Chamchamal region, said the toll covered only hospitals in his area.
According to Kurdish officials, dozens more peshmerga fighters were missing after Iraqi military forces launched operations against the Kurds following a standoff over a controversial independence referendum.
Iraqis gather as Iraqi forces arrive in the first neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Kirkuk on October 16, 2017. (AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYE)
Thousands of residents are fleeing Kirkuk for fear of fresh clashes.
The exodus in buses and cars towards Irbil and Sulaimaniyah, the two main cities of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan, created traffic jams on roads leading out of Kirkuk.
— AFP
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