The military statement did not describe specifically what the soldiers saw the Kurdish troops do.
At the same time, Theophilos's officers, afraid of treachery by the Kurdish troops, persuaded him to withdraw.
In 1918, the first Kurdish troops to fight against the Turks were employed by the British.
This led to a further series of bloody clashes between Iraqi forces and Kurdish troops.
Iraqi Shiite and Kurdish troops, meanwhile, would flood into the city to establish order, at least as they define it.
The Kurdish troops who stopped the trailer said it might have been traveling in a convoy of military vehicles, perhaps with a decontamination truck.
Thousands of Kurdish troops remained outside the city.
It was reported a number of Kurdish troops that are there that are outside of his control.
Not long after settling in, Kurdish troops of the Ottoman Army massacred the population almost entirely.
Kurdish and Iraqi troops face each other along a 180-mile front line that is punctuated by sporadic shelling and sniper fire.