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Battle of Pirde
Part of Battle of Kirkuk (2017)
Date20 October 2017
Location
Altun Kupri, Iraq
Result Kurdish victory[1]
Belligerents
 Kurdistan Region
  Iraq
Commanders and leaders
Kurdistan Region Masoud Barzani
Kurdistan Region Sirwan Barzani
Husein Yazdanpanah
 Iraq Haider al-Abadi
(Commander-in-chief)
Iraq Maj. Gen. Fadhil al-Barwari
(ISOF commander)
Units involved
Kurdistan Region Peshmerga
Parti Azadi Kurdistan
Strength
unknown unknown
Casualties and losses
unknown unknown

The Battle of Pirde was the first military confrontation between the Peshmerga and the Iraqi Army, it was the first military confrontation between both sides since the Iraq War

Background

The battle first started when Hashd al-Shaabi soldiers captured Kirkuk and made an attempt at capturing Erbil.[2]

The battle

The fighting began at 8:00 in the morning on the Erbil-to-Kirkuk road near the village of Pirde, when Iraqi Counter Terrorism Service began to mortar Kurdish units. An apparent 81-millimeter mortar exploded not far from a group of Kurdish generals standing outside a command post.[3]

  1. ^ https://www.arknews.net/en/node/39471
  2. ^ https://manage.rudaw.net/english/analysis/21102018
  3. ^ https://warisboring.com/kurdish-troops-halt-iraqi-forces-on-the-kurdistan-border/
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