Iraq: Who will control Hawija after ISIL? | Iraq

Kirkuk, Iraq – “Our next war is with the militias, probably not the Iraqi army but the fighters who want to kick us out of our own land,” said the Kurdish Peshmerga soldier as we drove out from Kirkuk city and headed to the frontline near ISIL-held Hawija. “This is my personal view,” he added. “I’m a soldier and I follow orders but my gut-feeling is that they do not want us to keep Kirkuk which