{"id":11011,"date":"2017-10-16T02:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/16\/iraqi-army-begins-advance-on-kurdish-held-kirkuk-state-tv\/"},"modified":"2017-10-16T02:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T00:33:03","slug":"iraqi-army-begins-advance-on-kurdish-held-kirkuk-state-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=11011","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi army begins advance on Kurdish-held Kirkuk \u2013 state TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forces start moving at midnight on Sunday towards oil fields and an air base amid rising tensions after Kurds vote for independenceIraqi forces have reportedly advanced on Kirkuk\u2019s oil fields and air base after the prime minister of Iraq, Haidar al-Abadi, ordered his army to \u201cimpose security\u201d on the Kurdish city in the wake of a recent vote for independence. Kurdish and Iraqi officials said forces began moving at midnight on Sunday, with state TV reporting \u201cvast areas\u201d of the region had been seized, a claim disputed by the Kurds. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/oct\/16\/iraqi-army-advances-kirkuk-kurds\" target=\"_blank\">Iraqi army begins advance on Kurdish-held Kirkuk \u2013 state TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forces start moving at midnight on Sunday towards oil fields and an air base amid rising tensions after Kurds vote for independenceIraqi forces have reportedly advanced on Kirkuk\u2019s oil fields and air base after the prime minister of Iraq, Haidar al-Abadi, ordered his army to \u201cimpose security\u201d on the Kurdish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}