ISIS launches attack on oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk

January 31, 2015 00:37

ISIS militants have attacked Kirkuk in northern Iraq, an effort that might be an earnest attempt to capture the key oil-rich city or perhaps to divert Kurdish troops fighting to capture the Islamist extremist group's stronghold of Mosul.

For months, ISIS has been facing off with the Peshmerga -- armed fighters who protect Iraqi Kurdistan -- to the west of Kirkuk. It hadn't gone into areas on Kirkuk's outskirts, but not the central city.

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