Kurds report Iraq attack south of oil export pipeline, Iraqi military deny

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BAGHDAD, Oct 24 (Reuters) – Iraq’s Kurdistan region accused Iraqi forces of launching an attack on Tuesday in the direction of the Turkish border where a section of the Kurdish oil export pipeline is located.

An Iraqi military spokesman denied clashes happened in the region of Rabi’a, located south of the Fish-Khabur border area held by Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

(Reporting by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by John Stonestreet)