Iraqi and Kurdish forces were in a standoff in the Kurdistan city of Kirkuk, which voted last month for independence away from Iraq. Kirkuk holds 10% of Iraq’s oil reserves. Washington Post reporter Loveday Morris covered the deadlock, joining Hari Sreenivasan with Skype in Baghdad.

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