BAGHDAD/KIRKUK – The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly rapid gains in a sudden campaign that has shifted the balance of power in the country almost overnight.
In the second day of a lightning government advance to take back towns and countryside from forces of the Kurdish autonomous region,
Kurdish troops known as Peshmerga pulled out of the long disputed Khanaqin area near the Iranian border.
