The government and Kurds are at odds over oil and land and both have troops in the disputed area.
Jalawla: A car bomb killed two Kurdish Peshmerga recruits yesterday in Jalawla, 70 miles north of Baghdad in a disputed region where the Arab-run Iraqi government and autonomous Kurdistan are caught up in a military stand-off.
The government and Kurds are at odds over oil and land and both have troops in the disputed area.
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